USS Horne (CG-30)

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Horns (CG-30)
career USN Jack
Ordered: 20th September 1961
Keel laying: December 12, 1962
Launch: October 30, 1964
Commissioning: April 15, 1967
Decommissioning: 4th February 1994
Fate: is sunk as a target ship
Technical specifications
Displacement : 7957 tons
Length: 166.7 m
Width: 16.8 m
Draft: 9.4 m
Drive: 4 Brown & Wilcox water tube boilers
2 General Electric geared turbines
2 Propellers
Speed: 34 kn
Crew: 31 officers, 387 men

The USS Horne (DLG- / CG-30) was a cruiser of the United States Navy and belonged to the Belknap class . The namesake was Admiral Frederick J. Horne .

history

DLG-30 was commissioned as destroyer leader in 1961 and laid down in the San Francisco Naval Shipyard at the end of 1962 . After the launch at the end of October 1964, the final equipment and test drives followed, in April 1967 the horn was put into service. The ship was stationed in San Diego . The first four relocations took the Horns straight into the Vietnam War , where they patrolled Yankee Station . In 1975 the Horne was reclassified as a guided missile cruiser and received the identification CG-30.

The cruiser subsequently moved several times to the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean, but it was not until 1990 that the ship was used as if in a conflict situation, when it took part in the Second Gulf War . The Horne was in the immediate vicinity when the USS Tripoli (LPH-10) and USS Princeton (CG-59) ran on mines. in the following years the ship participated in operations Restore Hope and Southern Watch , but was finally decommissioned in 1994 and waited until 2008 for further use as part of the reserve fleet of the United States Maritime Administration .

In June 2008 the USNS Navajo (T-ATF-169) towed the Horne towards Hawaii, where it was to be sunk as a target ship as part of the RIMPAC exercise .

Web links

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