USS Josephus Daniels (CG-27)
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| Ordered: | May 18, 1961 |
| Keel laying : | April 23, 1962 |
| Launch : | 2nd December 1963 |
| Commissioning: | May 8, 1965 |
| Decommissioning: | January 21, 1994 |
| Fate: | scrapped |
| Technical specifications | |
| Displacement : | 8957 ts |
| Length over all (LüA): | 166.7 m |
| Width: | 16.8 m |
| Draft : | 9.4 m |
| Ship propulsion : | 4 water tube boilers , 2 geared turbines , 2 propellers |
| Speed: | 34 knots |
| Crew : | 64 officers, 546 men |
The USS Josephus Daniels (DLG / CG-27) was an American Belknap-class warship . She was commissioned as a destroyer leader in 1965 , but reclassified as a guided missile cruiser in 1975 . The decommissioning followed in 1994. The ship took part in the Vietnam and Bosnia wars .
technology
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As a unit of the Belknap class , the Josephus Daniels was 16.80 meters wide and 9.4 meters draft over 166 meters long. The maximum displacement was almost 9,000 ts . The steam turbine drive , consisting of four boilers and two geared turbines, which transmitted an output of 85,000 hp to the two shafts , could accelerate the ship to up to 34 knots. The range with a load of bunker oil was 7,100 nautical miles or 13,000 kilometers at a cruising speed of 20 knots.
Like all Belknaps , the Josephus Daniels was mainly used as an escort for aircraft carriers, it was particularly suitable for air defense tasks. For this purpose, there was a double-arm starter for the anti-aircraft missile RIM-2 Terrier on the bow . On the stern , in front of a landing pad for a helicopter, was a Mark 42 multipurpose gun , and the ship also had a starter for the ASROC and three torpedo tubes for the Mark 46 lightweight torpedo for submarine hunts .
Name and insignia
The ship was named after Josephus Daniels . Daniels, who was born in 1862, was an American publisher and during the First World War, the United States Secretary of the Navy under President Woodrow Wilson . The godparents for the ship were chosen accordingly. These were Mrs. Clyde R. Rich and Mrs. Robert M. Woronoff, two granddaughters of Daniels.
The insignia of Josephus Daniels is also closely based on the namesake. It shows a blue shield divided diagonally by a white line. On the lower left of the sign there is an anchor that is supposed to show Daniels' ties to the Navy, and on the upper right is a feather symbolizing his past as a publisher. His time in the cabinet of the United States and as ambassador for his homeland in Mexico is particularly represented by the eagle enthroned above the shield and borrowed from the seal of the United States .
history
Construction and first trips
The Josephus Daniels was commissioned in 1961 and laid down in April 1962. The shipyard was Bath Iron Works in Bath , Maine . After about one and a half years of construction, the ship arrived in late 1963 from the stack and was baptized . After the final equipment and the shipyard test drives, the DLG-27 was handed over to the US Navy on May 4, 1965 and officially put into service four days later in the Boston Naval Shipyard . The keynote speaker at the ceremony was Rear Admiral Charles K. Duncan , Commander of the US Atlantic Fleet Cruiser / Destroyer Fleet . After the ceremony, which drove Josephus Daniels in the Naval Station Norfolk , Norfolk , Virginia , their first home port.
The destroyer leader began his first mission in 1967 when the ship was moved to the Mediterranean Sea to take part in NATO exercises. At the end of May 1968, the Josephus Daniels was turned off to search for the lost submarine USS Scorpion (SSN-589) - a search that remained in vain. In July, the ship took part in exercise UNITAS , during which it circled the South American continent with naval units from South American countries . In early 1969 , the Daniels docked for the first overhaul in the Norfolk Naval Shipyard . This lasted until September, and the crew spent the rest of the year doing test drives in the Caribbean .
1970s
The 1970s began for the Josephus Daniels with their first war mission. On February 25, the ship left port and entered the Pacific through the Panama Canal to sail off the coast of Vietnam, where the Vietnam War was raging. At the beginning of April, she took over her sister ship USS Belknap (DLG-26) as the flagship of Task Group 77.0.1 . The Daniels coordinated Combat Air Patrols in the Gulf of Tonkin and served there as a Combat Search and Rescue unit. Her sister ship USS Sterett (DLG-31) replaced the Daniels after 26 days to give this time for maintenance work in the port of Singapore . In mid-May the Josephus Daniels was back in action off Vietnam. Later that summer, the ship was used as a strike support ship and as a radar outpost to identify combat aircraft returning to their aircraft carriers. Overall, the Daniels spent 98 days in the war effort during their four front periods up to September 8th. The voyage earned the ship the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal and the Vietnam Service Medal . At the end of the year, the Daniels reached Norfolk again.
The second Mediterranean voyage followed in 1971, this time as the flagship of Destroyer Squadron 26 . In 1972 the ship was converted to a different type of bunker oil in the shipyard. The next mission followed in mid-1973, when Daniels relocated to the Mediterranean and then to the Arctic Ocean , where NATO exercises took place. Also in 1975 the ship took part in exercises of the Western Defense Alliance, in September the British Admiral JHF Eberle set his flag on the American ship. This was the first opportunity for this to happen since the British-American War in 1813 when the British took over the USS Chesapeake . On the way back to the United States, the Daniels had to weather heavy seas on the Atlantic , heeling up to 47 °. In 1975 the ID of the Josephus Daniels was renamed from DLG-27 to CG-27, with the result that the ship was now officially regarded as a cruiser. This was done to fill the nominal cruiser gap in the numbers of this most powerful type of warship vis-à-vis the Soviet Union.
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In 1976 the cruiser moved again to the Mediterranean. When it became known that the newest Soviet flight deck cruiser was to leave the Black Sea for the first time , the Daniels was chosen to shadow it. On July 27, the cruiser had contact with the aircraft carrier and its escorts off the coast of Egypt for the first time and pursued the group as far as Hammamet , Tunisia . On July 31, the Soviets finally left the Mediterranean, a day later the cruiser broke off contact, by which time the ship had already taken many photos and videos of the carrier, but also of the escorts and their tactics for evacuation. The fact that the Soviet Navy had seriously obstructed the Daniels' voyage by pushing them away with two Kriwak-class frigates led the US to criticize a violation of an agreement on conduct at sea between the Soviet Union and itself. A good month later, the Daniels trained with other units to push off enemy ships. There was a collision with the USS Conyngham (DDG-17) , which went into the cruiser and damaged a propeller . The Josephus Daniels was first repaired for three weeks in Naples, Italy, and then subjected to a complete repair in Toulon, France . The mission finally ended in February 1977.
The rest of the year the Daniels spent installing and testing a new system for data transfer "over the horizon" - also beyond the horizon and thus the direct line of sight - for the AGM-84 Harpoon and the BGM-109 Tomahawk . The tests also took place on the meanwhile sixth voyage into the Mediterranean in 1977/1978. After the return, the second overhaul followed in Norfolk, which took around a year to complete.
1980s
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The 1980s began as the 1970s had ended - with a move to the Mediterranean. In 1981 there were two shortened mission trips, the first took the cruiser to Central America for a month in March, the second to the Mediterranean from June to September. At the beginning of 1982 the next, regular relocation began; this should lead the ship into the Indian Ocean. The way led through the Mediterranean Sea and the Suez Canal . On January 23rd, just off Sicily, a helicopter from the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) hovered over the flight deck of the Daniels to carry out a personnel and cargo transfer. The helicopter suddenly lost its drive and crashed into the stern of the cruiser. While the aircraft suffered severe damage, the cruiser remained almost undamaged, with only a few slightly injured. On the same voyage, Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman congratulated the crew for their professional response after the crash. On February 3, the ship finally crossed the Suez Canal and the President of Somalia, Siad Barre , was flown onto the ship. The mission ended in July, and in October the Josephus Daniels docked in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard for the next overhaul.
The next relocation to the Indic began at the end of 1984 and lasted until February 1985. The Josephus Daniels' EloKa systems were then modernized; in July they moved to the Arctic Ocean , sailed the Barents Sea and spent a month in the vicinity of the 75th parallel. The ship received a Meritorious Unit Commendation for the operations carried out there . In January 1987, the cruiser returned to well-known shipping routes, training was carried out in the Mediterranean with NATO partners. At the beginning of 1988, exercises to combat drug smuggling followed. In August of that year the Daniels moved to the Middle East for the first time, where it was visited first by members of the United States Congress , then by Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci ; the ship was also awarded the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal . This trip ended on February 16, 1989.
1990s
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In the summer of 1990 the Josephus Daniels relocated to the UNITAS maneuver in South American waters, mainly doing exercises with local navies and visits to ports. Shortly after the start of the mission, the Daniels rescued six survivors of a wrecked freighter; at the end of July, she entered the Pacific through the Panama Canal. She returned to Norfolk at the end of the year. The 1991 year of operation began for the cruiser as a flagship for the fight against drugs in the Caribbean. The United States Coast Guard , with which the Daniels worked, awarded the ship the Coast Guard Special Operations Service Ribbon , and she also received the Joint Meritorious Unit Award . During a stopover in Colombia's Cartagena Colombia's president visited César Gaviria the ship. In May of that year, a year-long layover in Norfolk began. The New Threat Upgrade was installed, a comprehensive modernization of the weapons and electronics systems. Among other things, an improved anti-aircraft missile was brought on board with the SM-2 . This upgrade should ensure that the cruiser could stay in the fleet for several years. The new systems were then tested.
The last mission of the Daniels was back at the front. On March 11, 1993, the cruiser was transferred to the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) as escort and was the flagship for the commander of Destroyer Squadron 22 . The destination of the trip was again the Mediterranean, where the Bosnian war raged. The Daniels took part - as a replacement for the USS Leyte Gulf (CG-55) - in the operations Provide Promise , Deny Flight and Sharp Guard . Maneuvers with the Bulgarian and French navies also took place during the voyage . The operation earned the ship the NATO Service Medal and the Armed Forces Service Medal . On August 24, 1993 the ship reached Norfolk again, shortly afterwards it was decided to decommission the Daniels .
The cruiser had almost 30 years of service behind it, and the abrupt end of the Cold War also resulted in the need for savings. On October 19, the Daniels unloaded her weapons, four days later a last voyage began with the families and friends of the crew on board. The official decommissioning followed on January 21, 1994. Until February 17, 1999, the cruiser was part of the reserve fleet on the James River of the Maritime Administration in Fort Eustis , Virginia. Eventually the Daniels was towed to Brownsville , Texas , where it was scrapped by International Shipbreaking by November 1999 .
Web links
- ussjosephusdaniels.com (English)
- Images of the CG-27 at navsource.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page 4 of the cruise book of the maiden voyage (English)
- ↑ Back of the Decommissioning Book (English)
- ↑ according to page 4 of the Decommissioning Book
- ↑ Pages 58 and 59 of Cruise Book 76 (English)
- ↑ Entry in the Naval Vessel Register ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
