User blog comment:WolfgangBSC/The Random Chat Room/@comment-24787182-20151128232954



As the Baltimore class is AWOL and the only ship in the class that's preserved is the Chicago, which became an Albany class, I decided to build the Des Moines class. I literally used the hull of the Ostwind because I unintentionally built it in the design of Baltimore, so I tweaked it to make it like the Des Moines. So here's a ship named after the city I previously lived in: the USS Dallas (CA-150) [yes, there was another Dallas in the class, but I chose 150]. I also have it's fictional sister ship, the Springfield (CA-143) [not pictured].