Des Moines-class cruiser
Ships in class

Des Moines-class cruiser

Section Title: Ships in class
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Ship name	Hull No.	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	Decommissioned	Fate

Des Moines	CA-134	Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts	28 May 1945	27 September 1946	16 November 1948	6 July 1961	Struck 9 July 1991, scrapped 2007

Salem	CA-139	4 July 1945	25 March 1947	14 May 1949	30 January 1959	Struck 12 July 1991, museum ship at Quincy, Massachusetts

Dallas	CA-140	15 October 1945	N/A	Cancelled 6 June 1946

N/A	CA-141	N/A	Cancelled 7 January 1946

CA-142	Cancelled 12 August 1945

CA-143

Newport News	CA-148	Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia	1 October 1945	6 March 1948	29 January 1949	27 June 1975	Struck 31 July 1978, Sold for scrap, 25 February 1993

N/A	CA-149	N/A	Cancelled 12 August 1945

CA-150	New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey

CA-151

CA-152

CA-153

Sentence(s)

Des Moines was decommissioned by 1961 and Newport News (CA-148), served until 1975.

final_sentence: Des Moines was decommissioned by 1961 and Newport News (CA-148), served until 1975.