USS Henry B. Wilson (DDG-7)
_underway_off_the_coast_of_Southern_California_on_21_April_1989_(6449805).jpg) USS Henry B. Wilson (DDG-7) |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Type | destroyer |
| Keel laying | February 28, 1958 |
| Launch | April 22, 1959 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| period of service |
December 17, 1960 - |
| Whereabouts | sunk as a target ship |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
4,500 tons |
| length |
133.2 m |
| width |
14.3 m |
| Draft |
6.7 m |
| crew |
approx. 350 |
| drive |
Steam turbines with 70,000 shaft horsepower, two shafts |
| speed |
33 knots (61+ km / h) |
| motto |
Non Verbis Sed Re (actions, not words) |
The USS Henry B. Wilson (DDG-7) was a destroyer of the Charles F. Adams-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy . The ship named after Admiral Henry Braid Wilson served in the US Navy from 1960 to 1989.
history
The Henry B. Wilson was commissioned in 1957, the keel was laid on February 28, 1958 at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company . After being launched on April 22, 1959, the ship was put into service with the US Navy on December 17, 1960.
During the Vietnam War it was used several times at Yankee Station as a "plane guard" for the aircraft carriers operating there . She also participated several times in operations against smugglers off the coast. In 1975, she was part of the rapid reaction force that was supposed to free the crew of a captured US container ship during the Mayaguez incident .
After 29 years of service, the destroyer was decommissioned on October 2, 1989 and deleted from the ship register on January 26, 1990. In 1994 it was initially sold for scrapping. This was terminated prematurely in 1999 and the ship was acquired again in 2002 by the US Navy, which sank it as a target ship in 2003 during an exercise.
Web links
- Images by Henry B. Wilson at navsource.org