USS Reeves (CG-24)
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| Ordered: | |
| Keel laying: | July 1, 1960 |
| Launch: | May 12, 1962 |
| Commissioning: | May 15, 1964 |
| Decommissioning: | November 12, 1993 |
| Fate: | sunk as an exercise target |
| Technical specifications | |
| Displacement: | 8,281 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 Reeves (DLG-24 / CG-24) was a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy and was one Leahy class at. It was named after Vice Admiral Joseph M. Reeves .
history
The Reeves was laid down in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in 1960 and was launched after less than two years of construction. After another two years of final equipment, the Reeves entered service in 1964. Their first homeport was Long Beach , California . Her first mission from April 1965 led the ship right off the coast of Vietnam , where she protected the USS Oriskany (CV-34) and USS Midway (CV-41) during the Vietnam War . Another six-month tour followed until the first overhaul in 1969. The overhaul, carried out by Bath Iron Works , lasted until August 1970 and was mainly related to radar systems. The ship was then moved to Pearl Harbor . Two more trips to Vietnam followed by 1973.
On June 30, 1975, the ship was reclassified by a destroyer leader to a guided missile cruiser. In the 1980s, the Reeves was largely stationed as a forward unit in Yokosuka , Japan . In 1986 she was allowed to shadow the Soviet flight deck cruiser Minsk of the Kiev class when it was operating off Vladivostok . Later, on November 5, the Reeves with USS Rentz (FFG-46) and USS Oldendorf (DD-972) was the first US warship since 1949 to moor in a port in the People's Republic of China , here Qingdao .
In 1987 the Reeves was deployed in the Persian Gulf, where she guided tankers through the Strait of Hormuz as part of Operation Earnest Will . On October 30, 1989, the Reeves was hit by an accidentally dropped 500-pound bomb from a McDonnell Douglas F / A-18 on the forecastle, injuring five sailors. Shortly thereafter, on November 12, 1993, the cruiser was decommissioned and anchored in Pearl Harbor. There the Reeves lay until it was sunk in 2001 during a practice shooting by forces of the US Navy and the Royal Australian Navy
