even though they are outdated in today's sense, they are still impressive ships to see.

OMG! The Salem is the first naval ship I was on board... as a field trip tho.The ship introduced me to the navy and... Well... I started playing this game.

The swansong to the era of the gun-only cruisers. The Des Moines certainly are the epitome of their classes and are good looking boats in my eyes. I wish USS Salem gets some tending to however; those 3"/50 turrets look rather terrible from rust today.

3:14 "huh"

There is a frustrating amount of rust on that ship

had the honor to worke on this ship as part of quincy high school intern program back in 1998.

In real life: The best Fire control system and Surveillance radar In the game: The worst Fire control system and Surveillance radar Nice work WG!

Now, that is a "cruiser!" It's a shame we don't make them like that anymore.

So much rust on that poor girl, she deserves some TLC.

It's videos like these that really show Wargaming's love for military tanks, ships, and hopefully aircraft will get the same treatment after they recraft World of Warplanes. Thanks for making them!

They have the ship at Quincy, Massachusetts. I went there and found something signed by Teddy B Roosevelt and a cassette tape with a tape inside it that said “A Victory Over The Lake”, I’ll come back and listen to the whole thing.

The best part about this ship in game is that in real life, 5-6 seconds was actually the reload rate of each gun at full loading speed, allowing each gun to expel approximately 10-12 shells per minute

I visited the vessel yesterday. Visiting the vessel is the greatest experience in my life. I sure enjoy being a Des Moines fan.

Only played a few hours so far, but absolutely love it! And these videos are damn impressive! Love the history lessons

Just waiting for the USS. Missouri

Theater ships were so advanced for there time. I was on the USS St. Paul CA 73 (66-68) It was a little older but it had a lot of fighting muscle. But in the Gulf of Tonkin The crew had no Air Condition and it was so hot when we were there. The officers had A/C and so did sick bay and the oil shack. I worked in #3 fire room. At times it could climb to 160 deg in those spaces. If it wasn’t for the heat I would have stayed in for 20+. It was still a great experience . We took a lot of incoming at times. How ever our luck ran out and we took a direct hit in the bow at the water line. A north vietnam artillery unit got lucky. I was in the fire room ant could hear the echo thru the ship. Fortunately it hit officers country berthing compartments and 3 store rooms just at the water line. They flooded rather fast. Everyone did there job and things got secured. A Tempoary patch was welded over the large hole in our side and we stayed on the gun line and did our mission. Looking back on event we were all young kids. 18-23 year olds. People grow up fast when they are trained properly for those conditions. These cruisers were designed to take a real beating and keep fighting. We trained all the time and prepared for just about anything. Amazing what kids can do when trained properly. We fired so many 8” rounds we replaced our gun barrels two times while I was on board. The ship was definitely used to its fullest extent over there. But not for anti aircraft missions. We did not encounter that( thank God). The New Port News relived is off the gun line a couple of times. She was a good looking ship also. I wish we had there air conditioning system. Lol. Needless to say after working in a hot boiler room and after discharge I went into heating and air conditioning. I’ve been in my own Busness for over 40 years. Thanks to that cruiser and the US Navy, they gave me a trade.

I see her everyday :D

Salem was used to portray the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee in the 1956 film The Battle of the River Plate, although the original German ship had a single triple gun turret placed forward of the superstructure where the Salem has two triple gun turrets forward of its superstructure.

What a beauty. The size of her for her class and the way she was made reminds me of the old super frigates from around 1812.

I just finished my grind to this legendary cruiser. I want to thank you for their gifts of super containers and other rewards from this update that made this coal grind possible, that I have finished it just 4 days before the game's 5th birthday. More than two years after my visit to the USS Salem, I stand on her helm again, in the high seas of World of Warships.

You guys keep producing great historical videos. Excellent job!

Do the USS Massachusetts!!! Battleship Cove FTW

Thank you for making these awesome documentaries.

I love the channel, they get all sides of the story. Hearing the different languages shows authenticity to history not politics.

That was awesome thank you to whoever made this!

Best introduction of all Naval Legends episodes!!

It's good to USS Salem in video, planning to visit that ship soon, my grandpa was one of the first crews of that ship

They should do a Naval Legends on the USS West Virginia, it had an interesting service.

Those 8 in. guns were just awesome!!!! They really could tear some sh&% up, absolutely devastating weapons!

Love this video.. Really helped with my designing a 17 foot long model of this ship built out of Lego. :)

And if memory serves me correct she played the part of the Graf Spee in the British war film ‘Battle of the River Plate’

One badass ship imagine it would’ve entered in the beginning of the war

It's good for Salem to be alive today. Des Moines wasn't so lucky to be saved.

Vs Destroyers, Salem would’ve easily massacred them one after anouther. Vs Light cruiser, Salem would effortlessly crush them. Vs heavy cruisers, Salem would’ve pummeled them to their doom. Vs Aircraft Carriers, Salem could easily just shred plane after plane with extreme ease, and if it met their carrier, murdered it. Vs Battleships, they might look intimidating, but the Des Moines class if at a far away enough distance, they were capable of setting even Yamato ablaze and reduce the entire superstructure, AA defense, and secondary load to a ravaged steel inferno, and possible destroy all control of the ship from the superstructure. This really is the true cruiser king.

Great, educational video, thank you.

Amazing ship. Although it is great that the war ended, it would have been amazing to have seen film of her in action, doing what she was designed to do.

i love the detail to its superiority to other ships that they give hear ns

I'd like you guys to do a Naval Legends video on Taffy 3 in the Pacific Theater during World War II. It's an awesome story that should be shared to the community.

06:13 Awesome firing smoke I've ever seen

The Bismarck was definitly a naval legend.. even if i prefer the Tirpitz :P and of cause the Scharnhorst.

I can remember my experience on the USS Salem.

What a wonderful creature it is!

The Salem is in ok but deteriorating shape, if you have the opportunity to visit it I'd highly recommend. Its got to be an expensive ship to keep preserved though so if you want it for future generations, maybe add the museum to your Christmas donations.

I thought that mustache went illegal a long time ago...

*DON'T TREAD ON ME*

Today,s USA Navy is way different from WW 2 vessels but The beauty and sight and firepower from those Ships were something else . Big Guns ¡👍

i live like 3 towns away from this ship. its cool to see it here though

the most OP ship in the game

Now a book that had the USS Salem in it makes sense. It's a shame the U.S. does not feel the need for similar rolled ships, and most ships are now down gunned and armored, in the hope of just letting the shell go through.

Again, can we please see more on other nations ships during the world wars!

Des Moines seems nearly as large as the USS New Jersey I was just aboard! Absolutely massive for an 8" Heavy Cruiser! Nearly as large as the Alaska class, and she's "all but" a Battlecruiser!

Bro I wish I lived closer to literally any of these museum ships

WoW makes better history videos than the history channel

We need a tier 8 for WoWS Legends. USS Salem should be at the top

Handsome looking ship.

I drive by the Salem everyday it’s located in Quincy ma next to the four river bridge and every time I look at I’m just fascinated by war ships amazing . I new it was a Cruiser so cool I’m wanna look into how I can get on it and check it out . I served in OIF as n infantry man with the army but loved war ships since I was a kid

Two corrections are necessary. 1. THe 5” dual purpose guns were the 5” 38 caliber not 32 caliber guns. Second the other 5” gun quoted are actually the new 3” AA weapon, too late for war action but meant to handle Kamakazi attacks better than the 40 mm Boffors weapon.

that star wars theme music thou

why is this video unlisted? it should be shared with everyone!

I know these old ships cost money to keep but they should be kept as a reminder of how it was

Why did this contain very little mention of the Salem's sister-ship, USS Newport News CA-148, that did three tours in Vietnam, pounding the enemy with her big guns? While serving on board Newport News, I had a Chief Gunners Mate that had started his career during World War II, tell me, "if we'd had ships like this during WWII, the sea war would have been over pretty quick."

It's sad to see such a great ship, in such need of a little TLC. But it's a great video.

Wow, surprised to hear that heavy cruisers carried 16" guns. Before I thought only battleships had those guns.

Stupid question: What song starts at 10:20? Great series though.

"The Giant that was late for the war." .... Apt description of the U.S. but we came back with a vengeance ... The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance .. we shackled ourselves with pacifist laws to prevent the inevitable ... After Pearl I don't know who had the greater sigh of relief, FDR or Churchill...

hey, make naval legends for Battle of Midway please

Music for the ending?

As far as the rest that is mentioned by several comments, I didn't see much rust till about three fourths the way thrrough, then there is a lot of rust! I agree, she looks very neglected to me to!

My grandpa was a crewman on the salem

What was the fire rate of the dual purpose secondaries

Clean them up, tech them up and let them join a couple of amphib groups. Eight inch support with 21st plus century tech. I think the amphib troops would like that support.

Ah so this is where the Salem Witch idea came from for the Halloween event!

I just visited SALEM, and it is sad how much rust there is.

I think the mount missing would probably was removed for better stability during rough weather maybe I have read a similar case of a ship of that time period. But only a guess so many great ships ww2 post ww2 into the Cold War era 😉

The interior looks well maintained but the outside looks terrible. #plsrestoreUssSalem

This is one of your earlier videos, not as good as the latter one's which include the curators of the ships instead of wargaming employees. Nevertheless, still a good piece. I started to say you should have included the videos of these auto loading cannons which is what made these ships so unique, but then I found a later video (a year or so ago) doing just that. Well done.

“Hardly any adversary could withstand such a barrage” *Laughs in Soviet paper ship*

10:10 I am very disappointed in the mispronunciation of Des Moines. The S are silent.

I was always curious, as to why Salem was chosen as a museum, instead of Des Moines or Newport News.

i would love to see the uss alaska in game

whats different between a battle cruiser and heavy cruiser? i always see heavy cruisers as the same battle cruisers can someone tell me what is different between them.

Why do they have this clothe protection on the outside of the cvannons?

Do USS New Jersey!

6:08 😍😍

I slept on this thing their popcorn is better then the Massachusetts

Music in the video?

Are the 3"/50 Mark 22s or Mark 34s?

Music at 5:30?

aye this should be uss machine gun

Can you rework Des Moines’s armor?

Why not use the metric system in the videos since its the most used system in the world?

When dose this game come out

American Naval planners: dakka dakka more dakkaaaa Seriously, the amount of firepower on American ships was crazy and hilarious

Witch of the Seven Seas

It looks large enough to be a battleship jeez

3:40 halo reach music?

Salud!

Wargaming. U can put in such a remarkable ship such as the Des Moins that not much people heard about. What about the Yorktown Class carriers? What on earth happened to the Godly Legend USS Enterprise? Release it as a premium ship and ill Filp out!

It made a fire ring

imma need the background music