USS Salem underway in the Mediterranean Sea, 16 June 1952.
Name: USS Salem
Namesake: Salem, Massachusetts
Ordered: 14 June 1943
Builder: Bethlehem Steel Co.'s Fore River Shipyard
Laid down: 4 July 1945
Launched: 25 March 1947
Commissioned: 14 May 1949
Decommissioned: 30 January 1959
Struck: 7 December 1991
Status: Museum ship
General characteristics
Class and type: Des Moines-class heavy cruiser
Displacement: 17,000 tons
Length: 717 ft
Beam: 77 ft
Draft: 26 ft
Propulsion: 4 shaft; General Electric turbines; 4 boiler; 120,000 shp
Speed: 33 knots (38 mph; 61 km/h)
Range: 10,500 nmi (19,400 km) at 15 knots (17 mph; 28 km/h)
Complement: 1,738 officers and enlisted
Armament: 9 Ã? 8"/55 caliber guns
12 Ã? 5"/38 caliber guns
20 Ã? 3"/50 caliber guns
8 Ã? 20 mm guns
Aircraft carried: 2 helicopters
