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USS Des Moines (CA-134) was the lead ship of the class of United States Navy (USN) heavy cruisers. She was the first USN ship to mount the auto-loading 8-inch (203 mm) Mark 16 guns, the first large-caliber auto-loading guns in the world. She was the second ship of the USN to be commissioned with the name of the city of Des Moines, capital of ...
Heavy cruisers CA-149 and CA-151 to CA-153, light cruisers CL-154 to CL-159, and nuclear guided missile cruiser CGN-42 were canceled before being named. Guided missile cruisers CG-1 through 8 and CG-10 through 12 were converted from World War II cruisers.
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CA-134 may refer to one of the following: USS Des Moines (CA-134) , the lead ship of the Des Moines class heavy cruisers which served with the United States Navy from 1948 to 1961 California State Route 134 , a segment of the Ventura Freeway near Los Angeles, California
They were the last of the “all-gun” heavy cruisers and were exceeded in size within the U.S. Navy only by the 30,000-long-ton (30,481 t) Alaska-class "large cruisers" that straddled the line between heavy cruisers and battlecruisers. Two Des Moines-class cruisers were decommissioned by 1961 but the Newport News (CA-148), served until 1975.