USS Cape Cod (AD-43)
USS Cape Cod (AD-43) was the third Yellowstone-class destroyer tender in the United States Navy.
History | |
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Name: | USS Cape Cod |
Namesake: | Cape Cod, Massachusetts |
Ordered: | 30 September 1977 |
Builder: | National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, California |
Laid down: | 27 January 1979 |
Launched: | 2 August 1980 |
Acquired: | 15 February 1982 |
Commissioned: | 17 April 1982 |
Decommissioned: | 29 September 1995 |
Stricken: | 7 April 1999 |
Honours and awards: | Joint Meritorious Unit Award, Navy Unit Commendation, Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (3), National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (2-Persian Gulf), Southwest Asia Service Medal, Kuwait Liberation Medal |
Fate: | Scrapped at ESCO Marine, 2012 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Yellowstone-class destroyer tender |
Displacement: | Approx. 20,500 tons full load |
Length: | 643 feet (196 meters) |
Beam: | 85 feet (25.9 meters) |
Draft: | 27 feet (8.2 meters) |
Propulsion: | Two boilers, steam turbines, one shaft, 20,000 shaft horsepower |
Speed: | 20 knots |
Complement: | 1500 |
Armament: | One single 5 in (130 mm)/38 dual purpose gun mount |
Armor: | None |
Aircraft carried: | Helicopter platform |
History
Cape Cod was laid down on 27 January 1979 at San Diego, California, by the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company and launched on 2 August 1980. The destroyer tender worked for many years in active naval service. It assisted the Spruance-class destroyers, the Truxtun-class cruisers and Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates.[1]
She was commissioned on 17 April 1982 and served 13 years as a destroyer tender before being decommissioned on 29 September 1995, and stricken from the Navy list on 7 April 1999. She was berthed at the James River Reserve Fleet in Fort Eustis, VA, until she was sold for scrap in 2012.
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See also
- USS Barnstable County (LST-1197)
- SS Cape Cod (T-AK-5041)
External links
References
- This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.
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