USS Deyo (DD-989)

The Deyo (below) with battleship Iowa
Overview
Order	15th January 1975
Keel laying	October 14, 1977
Launch	20th January 1979
1. Period of service
Commissioning	March 22, 1980
Decommissioning	November 6, 2003
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 × Mark 45 lightweight guns , 2 x 20 mm Phalanx CIWS , 2 x Harpoon starters , 1 anti-aircraft missile starter, 2 torpedo tubes 324mm, 1  ASROC starter, later replaced by 61-cell VLS

The USS Deyo (DD-989) was a destroyer of the Spruance-class destroyer .

history

The Deyo was laid down at Ingalls Shipbuilding in 1977 and launched in 1979. The ship was named after Admiral Morton Deyo , who served in the Atlantic Fleet and also in the Pacific Fleet during World War II . In 1980 the Deyo entered service with the US Navy .

The Deyo was first deployed to the Persian Gulf in May 1981. In 1987 the ship drove with the combat group around the battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) in the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean . In 1989, another trip to the Gulf was planned to protect Kuwaiti tankers as part of Operation Earnest Will .

Meeting of the USS Deyo with the Russian Admiral Kuznetsov in 1991 south of Italy

In 1990 missions to combat drug smuggling in the Caribbean followed, and from May 1991 a trip into the Mediterranean with the combat group around the USS Forrestal as part of Operation Desert Shield , and in 1994 with the USS George Washington . During the 1991 mission, the Deyo escorted, among other things, the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov through the Mediterranean when it joined the Russian Northern Fleet . In 1995, the ship also took part in exercise Strong Resolve , an amphibious warfare exercise in Norway, after which the ship was overhauled from September 1995 for 13 months at Newport News Shipbuilding . In June 1996 the ship was slightly damaged at the pier in the shipyard when the USNS Gilliland (T-AKR 298) broke loose in a storm and struck the Deyo .

In 1997 the ship took part in several regional NATO exercises. In 1998 it was the flagship of today's NATO Standing NRF Maritime Group 2 , at that time still 'Standing Naval Force Mediterranean'.

The last mission of the Deyo was in 2003, as in 2001, with the USS Harry S. Truman in the Persian Gulf, where it was operating as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom . During this voyage, she was one of the ships that fired the first wave of BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles at targets in Iraq.

In 2003 it was decommissioned at Naval Station Norfolk , and in 2004 it was removed from the US Navy shipping register. On August 25, 2005, the ship was sunk as a target as planned during an exercise.

Web links

Commons : USS Deyo  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Unofficial site of Deyo (Engl.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see English Wikipedia