CA-132 Macon

Country:  United States

Class, [Type]: Baltimore, [CA].

Builder: New York Shipbuilding Company, Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Launch date: 15 October 1944.

Commission date: 26 August 1945.

Decommission date: 10 March 1961.

Displacement ( tons ): 14.733 tm standard, 17.273 tm at full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 205,26 x 21,59 x 8,18

Main machinery: 4 x Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 4 x GE turbines ( 120.000 hp ), 4 x propellers.

Speed ( knots ): 33.

Range ( miles ): 7.000 at 15 knots.

Complement: 1.146 ( 61 officers ).

Guns: 3 x triple Mk15 turrets 203mm, 6 x double Mk12 turrets 127mm, 12 x quadruple mountings 40mm anti-aircraft, 24 x 20mm.

Missiles:  SSM: 3 x SSM-N-8A Regulus I.

Military lift: 2500 tons of fuel.

Radar: Air Search: 1 x AN/SPS-37, 2D, 370km range; Surface Search: 1 x AN/SPS-10, C band; Fire Control: Mk56 (203mm guns), Mk37 (40mm guns).

Helicopter: ?.

Aviation: 4 x Vought OS2U Kingfisher/Curtiss SC-1 Seahawk floatplanes, using 2 x catapults located at stern (removed later).

Callsign: NKEC ()

Comment: After being briefly decomissioned in 1950 returned to duty as one of the four cruisers of the class converted for firing the SSM-N-8 Regulus missile.

Awards (as of 10/03/1961):