![]() ![]() Her main battery held the world's first automatic 8" guns and were the first 8" naval guns to use cased ammunition instead of shell and bag loading. Coffey and commissioned on, with Captain John C. Salem was laid down on 4 July 1945 by the Bethlehem Steel Co.'s Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts launched on 25 March 1947, sponsored by Miss Mary G. She is open to the public as a museum ship in Quincy, Massachusetts. ![]() She was decommissioned in 1959 after serving in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. ![]() The second ship of her class, she was the world's last heavy cruiser to enter service and the last remaining. USS Salem (CA-139) is a Des Moines-class heavy cruiser completed for the United States Navy shortly after World War II and commissioned in 1949. Bethlehem Steel Co.'s Fore River Shipyard ![]()
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