USS Harry E. Yarnell (CG-17)
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| Ordered: | November 7, 1958 |
| Keel laying: | May 31, 1960 |
| Launch: | December 9, 1961 |
| Commissioning: | 2nd February 1963 |
| Decommissioning: | October 20, 1993 |
| Fate: | Canceled |
| 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: | Officers 37, men 408 |
The USS Harry E. Yarnell (DLG-17 / CG-17) was a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy and was one Leahy class at. It was named after Admiral Harry E. Yarnell named.
history
The Yarnell was laid down at Bath Iron Works in 1960 and launched there in late 1961. In February 1963 the ship was put into service with the Navy.
During her test drives, the Yarnell was diverted on April 10, 1963 to take part in the search for the missing submarine USS Thresher (SSN-593) . The cruiser found some debris and traces of oil from the sunken submarine. The Yarnell spent the rest of the year with further test drives. In September 1964 she took part in NATO anti -submarine exercises on the European side of the Atlantic and sailed the Mediterranean. In 1966 the ship operated in the Black Sea, then in US waters. At the beginning of 1967 the third transfer to European waters began. In June 1990 she attended the Kiel Week.
The cruiser's air defense systems were then modernized, and later the remaining weapon systems.
The Yarnell was decommissioned in 1993 and later demolished.