USS Halsey (CG-23)
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| Ordered: | |
| Keel laying: | August 26, 1960 |
| Launch: | January 15, 1962 |
| Commissioning: | July 20, 1963 |
| Decommissioning: | January 28, 1994 |
| Whereabouts: | disassembled |
| Technical specifications | |
| Displacement: | 8281 tons |
| Length: | 162.5 meters |
| Width: | 16.8 meters |
| Draft: | 7.9 meters |
| Drive: | Two steam turbines, 85,000 hp, two screws |
| Crew: | 32 officers, 393 men |
The USS Halsey (DLG-23 / CG-23) was a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy and was one Leahy class at. It was named after Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey .
history
Halsey was laid down in 1960 with the identification DLG-23 , i.e. as a destroyer leader . The shipyard was the San Francisco Naval Shipyard , where the ship was launched in early 1962. Godparents were the fleet admiral's two granddaughters, Mrs. Margaret Denham and Miss Jane Halsey. In the summer of 1963 the official commissioning of the Halsey took place . The first in command was Capt. Herbert H. Anderson. The ship spent the rest of the year on test drives, arriving at home in San Diego in December . The first tests of the weapon systems followed in 1964.
From 1966 the Halsey was involved in the Vietnam War . During this time she was stationed at the United States Naval Base Subic Bay in the Philippines. Among other things, the ship received the Navy Unit Commendation for the rescue of a total of 16 aircraft crews . Another deployment in the Pacific followed in 1968, with Halsey sailing alongside USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) and USS Truxtun (DLGN-35) . In 1970 the ship operated with the USS Hancock (CV-19) . On October 27, 1971, the ship docked at Bath Iron Works for an overhaul. The cruiser was taken out of service on November 4, 1971. The commissioning took place on December 16, 1972. The first commander after the modernization was Capt. Joseph D. Nolan. In 1974 the ship was relocated to Vietnam again.
In 1975 it was reclassified as CG-23 , which was followed by another overhaul in the Long Beach Naval Shipyard in 1977 . In 1980 the next transfer to the Pacific was made alongside the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) , which was followed by two more by 1988. That year the ship moved to the Persian Gulf. After the USS Vincennes (CG-49) accidentally shot down Iran Air Flight 655 there, the Halsey replaced the more modern Ticonderoga-class cruiser in the southern Gulf.
In October 1988, Continental Maritime in San Diego began retrofitting the New Threat Upgrade ; This ended at the end of 1990. Ultimately, however , the Halsey was decommissioned in 1994. Until 2003, the ship was in the reserve fleet in Suisun Bay near San Francisco and was then dismantled.
Web links
- Homepage former crew members (Engl.)