Des Moines-class heavy cruiser USS Newport News (CA-148).[5296 × 3633]
[1395x854] USS Salem, CA-139, of the Des Moines-class Heavy Cruisers, sailing in the Mediterranean Sea as Flagship of the 6th Fleet, 1954. US Cruisers didn't get much better than this.
[1518 x 873]USS Des Moines (CA-134), on left, Italian light cruiser Luigi di Savoia Duca Degli Abruzzi (C-550), at far right is a Capitani Romani-class destroyer leader. Note Forrestal class carrier in background, Naples, 1959
Why did the US Navy chose the Baltimore class to become guided missile cruisers instead of newer and larger Des Moines and Alaska class cruisers?
[2830x1900] 1993 was the year I was born, but it was also the last year of the USS Newport News, CA-148, of the Des-Moines Class Heavy Cruisers. Note that all her visible gun barrels have been sawed off.
Des Moines class cruiser sitting in the dock for maintenance
Salem - Des Moines Class Heavy Cruiser Fan design by me
[1654x1072] Port side view of USS Des Moines (CA-134), Anchored in Barcelona Harbor, Spain. Year Unknown, Date Unknown. Probably at the beginning of the Cold War because at that time 2 Worcester Class Light Cruisers was anchored in Venezia, Italy and USS Midway (CV-41) was anchored in Toulon, France
[2300x1800] USS Salem, CA-139, at her museum berth in Quincy, Massachusetts, 2017. Sister ship to the USS Des Moines and Newport News, she is the last surviving example of her class and of an American Heavy Cruiser. Other than some faded paint, she looks ready to fight, still.
A stern view of Des Moines-class heavy cruiser USS Newport News (CA-148).[3000 × 1903]
(1860x1861) USS Salem. Built and preserved in Quincy, MA. Des Moines Class were the last of the heavy cruisers.
US Navy Des Moines - class heavy cruisers. :3
If you are ever in Quincy Massachusetts, check out the USS Salem; last of the Des Moines class heavy cruisers (the pinnacle of USN gun cruisers). 9x203mm auto loading guns each able to fire ~10 rounds per minute.
Des Moines-class cruiser: The biggest autoloader
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The 3 Des Moines class cruisers were the last all-gun cruisers the US ever built, and most heavily armed cruisers ever built by any nation. Commissioned too late for WWII, they were fast at 33 knots, and reasonably armored, with a 6-inch belt, but they were most notable for their armament.
Des Moines-class ships were not unique in having 9 203mm guns, but they were unique in using autoloaders for those guns- autoloaders that allowed for a sustained rate of fire of up to 7 rounds per minute per gun, which for WT reference is about as fast as an Tiger II H with full crew. For a 203mm gun. They also carried an insane secondary armament of 12 5-inch guns in dual mounts (same turrets as the USS Alan M. Sumner, only 2x as many), and 24 3-inch guns in dual mounts that could each fire 50 rounds a minute, with VT-fused shells. For added fun, they also carried 12 20mm oerlikons in single mounts.
Since they were too late for WWII, and they didn't have the deck space for missiles, they didn't serve long- barely 10 years in the case of Des Moines and Salem. Newport News was the only one that saw combat, serving as a gunfire support ship off Vietnam. Des Moines and Newport News were both scrapped, but Salem survives to this day as a museum ship in Massachusetts.
My picture of USS Salem a Des-Moines class cruiser (+album in comments)
Three Des Moines Class Cruisers in the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Philadelphia, PA in the 1980's. Ships from Left to Right: Newport News (CA 148), Salem (CA 139), Des Moines (Ca 134). Navsource [1010 x 654]
USS Midway (CV-41) with Oregon City-class cruiser USS Albany (CA-123), Des Moines-class heavy cruiser USS Newport News (CA-148) and USS Missouri in 1950.[824 x 768]
USS Newport News (Des Moines class Cruiser) exchanges fire with North Vietnamese shore batteries. [xpost /r/CombatFootage]
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USN Des Moines light cruiser alongside my new york class bb. this ship is still a work in process.
Short film about the autoloading Mark 22 3"/50 AA gun and the autoloading Mark 16 8"/55 gun mounted on Des Moines-class cruisers
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[Warship] Three Des Moines Class Cruisers in the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Philadelphia, PA in the 1980's. Ships from Left to Right: Newport News (CA 148), Salem (CA 139), Des Moines (Ca 134). Navsource
If you are ever in Quincy Massachusetts, check out the USS Salem; last of the Des Moines class heavy cruisers (the pinnacle of USN gun cruisers). 9x203mm auto loading guns each able to fire ~10 rounds per minute.
Three Des Moines Class Cruisers in the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Philadelphia, PA in the 1980's. Ships from Left to Right: Newport News (CA 148), Salem (CA 139), Des Moines (Ca 134). Navsource
[Warship] USS Midway (CV-41) with Oregon City-class cruiser USS Albany (CA-123), Des Moines-class heavy cruiser USS Newport News (CA-148) and USS Missouri in 1950.
Which ship line is more beginner friendly, the path to Des Moines or Worcester in the US Cruiser line?
Im starting a new account and I have heard that the US cruiser line was one of the most easiest line to train on to learn about cruiser strats.
So I have come to ask which line is much easier and which line is much better to invest on as I will probably be grinding this line for a majority of the time.
USS Des Moines as seen off Boston, 1951. One of the last heavy cruisers ever built, she was armed with automatic shell loading guns. [1717x1286]
USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) tows the decommissioned cruiser USS Des Moines (CA-134) from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Brownsville, Texas, for scrapping [1200 x 885] Credit: U.S. Military Sealift Command
"Surveillance Radar is amazing." "USN gun cruisers are an underperforming line" "Des Moines is fantastic" "Atlanta is still great after IFHE" "Atlanta and Flint are dead after IFHE". As a newbie, I've heard so many conflicting opinions on this line, so what's the truth about USN Cruiser?
Are they worth playing? Is it a trash line? If I play with friends, should at least *one* of us have access to Surveillance Radar, even if the ship sucks?
There are so many places to find info, I'm pretty baffled. I appreciate the input, seasoned captains!
Would love to see The Des Moines class in Azur Lane (Video by Drachinifel)
Hey all! I saw This video by Drach come up in my sub feed and I was remeinded of my favourite Heavy Cruser class the Des Moines.
https://youtu.be/Y3TVqZDQSNA
I don't know about anyone else but I would love to see Des Moines, Salem or Newport News in AL
Personaly I'd say they would be UR/DR ships because a Baltimore class 203mm main gun barrel can fire 4 rounds a minute...One barrel on The Des Moines can pump out 10 in a minute...be it HE or Super Heavy AP 203mm rounds. And she has 9 of them!
I don't know about you guys, but 90 203mm rounds a minute is terifiying! (and I love it)
Plus All the updated eletronics they had, then there is the AA firepower: 6 twin 5"/38 moints 12! twin 3"/50, and another 12 20mm's! Let's not forget the extra armour! And while significantly heavier can move as fast a Baltimore too!
To me a Des Moines would be a FP+AA beast with a ridiculous reload/rate of fire and tanky/evasive. Would probably need a UR mk 16 203mm gun to work though.
I know not everyone would want them in the game but a man can dream :P
For US cruisers should I go the Des Moines route or the Worcester route?
One of the last all gun heavy cruiser of the US Navy,USS Des Moines. [588x480]
Cruisers Des Moines and Salem in the Pacific Ocean
But hey, at least West Des Moines Community Schools is now allowing children to snack all day while in class!
Is the new armor plating going to prevent T10 cruisers such as Des Moines to be obliterated by AP bombs?
Flouting federal order, West Des Moines schools will not require masks on school buses when students return to class
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USS Salem, Des Moines Class. June 2021. Send some love (to the ship)
The crew of the U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Des Moines (CA-134) practicing manning the rail in advance of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's visit to the ship, 15 December 1959 [5690×4527]
US Navy Video States Des Moines Cruiser Guns are Dual Purpose - Anti Air Guns?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrWd1e3aqUs
At 11:30 into the video it states that the main weapons on the Des Moines cruiser, the 8 inch guns can also be used for long range anti air. Is there a reason why it is not that way in the game?
[800 x 460]A Canarias class heavy cruiser under construction at Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval in Ferrol, Spain, early 1930's
[1500x584] Light cruiser "Miguel de Cervantes", Almirante Cervera class, off Cartagena, ca. 1937
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