USS Hoel (DDG-13)
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| Ordered: | 17th January 1958 |
| Keel laying: | 3rd August 1959 |
| Launch: | 4th August 1960 |
| Commissioning: | June 16, 1962 |
| Decommissioning: | October 1, 1990 |
| Painted: | November 20, 1992 |
| Fate: | sold to energy suppliers |
| Technical specifications | |
| Displacement: | 4,500 tons |
| Length: | 133.2 m |
| Width: | 14.3 m |
| Draft: | 6.7 m |
| Drive: | Steam turbines with 70,000 shaft horsepower, two shafts |
| Speed: | 33 knots (61+ km / h) |
| Crew: | approx. 350 |
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The USS Hoel (DDG-13) was a destroyer of the Charles F. Adams-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy .
history
The Hoel was commissioned from the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City , Michigan in 1957 , laid down there in 1959 and launched in 1960. The ship was christened by Mrs. Harry H. Long, the granddaughter of the namesake William R. Hoel . The commissioning followed in 1962.
After test drives, the Hoel was docked in the Long Beach Naval Shipyard in 1963, where routine rework was carried out.
In the following years the Hoel was used in the Vietnam War. Among other things, the ship served as a Combat Search and Rescue unit and used for coastal shelling. Later the Hoel was a radar outpost for the USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) at Yankee Station .
In the 1980s, the hoel was used in the Persian Gulf. There she protected Kuwaiti supertankers and shelled Iranian oil platforms during Operation Earnest Will . In 1990 the Hoel was finally decommissioned and in 1992 finally deleted from the shipping register.
After that, the destroyer of was Charleston Shipbuilders Inc. purchased. The ship wanted to use this as a floating power plant. In 1997 the Hoel was towed to Manaus in Brazil, where the local suppliers could not provide sufficient electricity. However, since the ship's turbines required intensive repair work and the necessary spare parts had to be shipped from America, the Hoel was only able to supply a quarter of the contractually insured amount of energy at times, so that the contract was terminated after only one year.