USS Macon underway on 6 October 1951
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Macon |
Namesake | City of Macon, Georgia |
Builder | New York Shipbuilding |
Laid down | 14 June 1943 |
Launched | 15 October 1944 |
Commissioned | 26 August 1945 |
Decommissioned | 12 April 1950 |
Recommissioned | 16 October 1950 |
Decommissioned | 10 March 1961 |
Stricken | 1 November 1969 |
Identification |
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Motto | Constitution, Justice, Wisdom, Moderation |
Fate | Scrapped, 5 July 1973 |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Baltimore-class cruiser |
Displacement | 13,600 long tons (13,818 t) |
Length | 674 ft 11 in (205.71 m) |
Beam | 70 ft 10 in (21.59 m) |
Draft | 20 ft 6 in (6.25 m) |
Speed | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
Complement | 1,142 officers and enlisted |
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USS Macon (CA-132), a Baltimore-class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy, was laid down on 14 June 1943 by the New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, New Jersey; launched on 15 October 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Charles F. Bowden, wife of the mayor of Macon, Georgia; and commissioned on 26 August 1945 at Philadelphia, Captain Edward Everett Pare in command.