USS Macon (CA-132)

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:Arleigh_Burke-class_destroyer
Royal Navy ship
gptkbp:armament 24 × 20 mm AA guns
48 × 40 mm AA guns
12 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 cal guns
9 × 8 in (203 mm)/55 cal guns
gptkbp:beam 70 ft 10 in (21.59 m)
gptkbp:builder gptkb:New_York_Shipbuilding_Corporation
gptkbp:class gptkb:Arleigh_Burke-class_destroyer
gptkbp:commissioned 26 August 1945
gptkbp:complement 1,142 officers and enlisted
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:decommissioned 10 March 1961
gptkbp:displacement 13,600 tons (standard)
17,031 tons (full load)
gptkbp:draught 24 ft (7.3 m)
gptkbp:fate Sold for scrap, 1973
gptkbp:homeport gptkb:Norfolk,_Virginia
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label USS Macon (CA-132)
gptkbp:hullNumber gptkb:CA-132
gptkbp:laidDown 14 May 1943
gptkbp:launched 15 October 1944
gptkbp:length 673 ft (205 m)
gptkbp:namedAfter gptkb:Macon,_Georgia
gptkbp:operator gptkb:United_States_Navy
gptkbp:participatedIn gptkb:Cold_War
Mediterranean deployments
gptkbp:propulsion 4 × General Electric steam turbines
4 × shafts
8 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers
gptkbp:recommissioned 16 October 1950
gptkbp:speed 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
gptkbp:sponsor gptkb:Mrs._Charles_F._Bowden
gptkbp:struckFromNavalRegister 1 November 1969
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Arleigh_Burke-class_destroyer
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5