CA-148 Newport News

Country:  United States

Class, [Type]: Des Moines, [CA].

Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A.

Launch date: 06 March 1948.

Commission date: 29 January 1949.

Decommission date: 27 June 1975.

Displacement ( tons ): 17.532 tm standard, 21.269 tm at full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 213,4 x 23,3 x 6,7

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

Speed ( knots ): 33.

Range ( miles ): 10.500 at 15 knots.

Complement: 1.799 ( ? officers ).

Guns: 3 x triple Mk16 turrets 203mm/55, 6 x double Mk32 turrets 127mm/38, 12 x double Mk34 76mm/50, 12 x Mk24 20mm/70.

Military lift: 3006 tm of fuel.

Radar: Air Search: 1 x AN/SPS-6, 1 x AN/SPS-29; Surface Search: 1 x SPS-8A; Fire Control: Mk24 + Mk13 radars ( 203mm ), Mk25 + Mk35 radars ( 127mm ), Mk56 + Mk35 radars ( 76mm ).

Countermeasures: ECM: SLR-2.

Helicopter: landing pad, no hangar.

Callsign: NIQQ ()

Comment: Badly damaged in 1972 by explosion of No 2 turret, killing 20.

Awards (as of 27/06/1975):