SHIP'S HISTORY AND STATISTICS
NavSource Online: Cruiser Photo Archive
This site shows drawings of the Des Moines top and side views, statistics, and images from commissioning to scrapping.
PLANK OWNER CERTIFICATE
Thanks to Sheliah Shepard the daughter of shipmate John P Pilon who was a Plank Owner.
Plank Owner Certificate
Dedicated to uphold the Navy
in peace and war
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
All ye sailors, marines, dolphins, mermaids, whales, skates, sharks
and denizens of the deep. That on this 16th day of November the year 1948.
There was born to the United States Navy the heavy cruiser USS
Des Moines CA-134 built in Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts,
By the Bethlehem Steel Company. Has further be it known that
John P Pilon is hereby declared to be a Plank Owner of this vessel.
A.D. Chandler
Captain, U.S. Navy,
Commanding
Dedicated to uphold the Navy
in peace and war
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
All ye sailors, marines, dolphins, mermaids, whales, skates, sharks
and denizens of the deep. That on this 16th day of November the year 1948.
There was born to the United States Navy the heavy cruiser USS
Des Moines CA-134 built in Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts,
By the Bethlehem Steel Company. Has further be it known that
John P Pilon is hereby declared to be a Plank Owner of this vessel.
A.D. Chandler
Captain, U.S. Navy,
Commanding