USS Connolly (DD-979)
_port_quarter_off_Haiti_1993.jpg) The Connolly off Haiti in 1993 |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Order | 15th January 1974 |
| Keel laying | 29th September 1975 |
| Launch | 3rd June 1977 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | October 14, 1978 |
| Decommissioning | September 18, 1998 |
| Whereabouts | sunk as a target ship |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
9100 standard tons |
| length |
171.6 meters |
| width |
16.8 meters |
| Draft |
9.8 meters |
| crew |
30 officers, 350 sailors |
| drive |
2 propellers, driven by 4 gas turbines; 80,000 wave horsepower |
| speed |
33 knots |
| Armament |
2 guns |
The USS Connolly (DD-979) was a destroyer of the Spruance-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy .
history
The Connolly , named after Admiral Richard Connolly , was built by Ingalls Shipbuilding , the keel-laying took place in 1975. In 1978 the destroyer entered service. He was stationed at Naval Station Norfolk .
In the first few years of its service, the Connolly relocated to the Mediterranean several times, including off the coast of Lebanon. She also took part in the UNITAS exercise and moved off the African Atlantic coast. In 1984 an overhaul of the destroyer was carried out. In the Bath Iron Works shipyard , two armored box launchers were installed on the foredeck, which equipped the ship with eight BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles .
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In 1993 the destroyer drove off Haiti to enforce UN sanctions against the Central American country in Operation Support Democracy . A year later, the ship sailed in the Red Sea to enforce sanctions against Iraq by the crew checking cargo ships. In 1995 the ship changed its home port and left Norfolk for Naval Station Mayport . In 1996 the Connolly escorted the USS George Washington (CVN 73) in the Mediterranean, where the ships took part in several exercises. Later that year, the destroyer sailed with several DropShips off Liberia and, back in the Mediterranean, took part in Operation Sharp Guard .
In 1998, after only 20 active years, the Connolly was taken out of service. She was docked in the Naval Intermediate Ship Maintenance Facility in Philadelphia and lay there for over ten years. It was only towed off the coast of Florida in 2009, where it was hit by helicopters, the USS Oscar Austin (DDG-79) , USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) and the German frigates Sachsen (F 219) and Lübeck (F 214 ) sunk as part of the UNITAS exercise.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Banished to the depths of the Atlantic on marine.de