USS Tattnall (DDG-19)

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The Tattnall in the Suez Canal, August 1990
The Tattnall in the Suez Canal , August 1990
Overview
Order July 21, 1959
Keel laying November 14, 1960
Launch August 26, 1961
1. Period of service flag
Commissioning April 13, 1963
Decommissioning January 18, 1991
Whereabouts Wrecked in 1999
Technical specifications
displacement

3,277 tons

length

133 meters

width

14 meters

Draft

4.6 meters

crew

354

drive

2 propellers, driven by 2 steam turbines; 70,000 hp

speed

33 knots

Armament

The USS Tattnall (DDG-19) was the Charles F. Adams-class destroyer belonging destroyer , which was made in April 1963 in service. The ship remained in service until January 1991, then was in the reserve fleet and was sold for scrapping in 1999.

history

The Tattnall was laid on November 14, 1960 in the Avondale Shipyard and was launched on August 26, 1961. The commissioning took place on April 13, 1963 under the command of Commander William F. Regan. The ship was named after the officer Josiah Tattnall (1795–1871).

After commissioning, the Tattnall completed several test drives, during which, among other things, its weapon systems were tested. Practice assignments followed from her home port of Charleston , which in April 1964 also took her to New York .

In 1964 the ship took on NATO -Use teamwork in part, of it the first time in Europe led. It returned to Charleston on October 22nd. In December 1964 the Tattnall set out again for Europe and joined the United States Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean . The association completed several training missions and visited various ports in countries in the Mediterranean region. In March 1965 the ship returned to the United States.

After returning to Charleston, the Tattnall took part in operations under the direction of the Chief of Naval Operations . From February to August 1966 she took part again as part of the Sixth Fleet in missions in the Mediterranean. In the years to come, further exercises and port visits in European waters followed. Among other things, the ship was present in the port of Kiel in June 1969 during the Kiel Week .

On January 24, 1984, a fire broke out on the Tattnall , which was then patrolling the coast of Beirut , which put parts of the weaponry out of order. The sister ship USS Claude V. Ricketts (DDG-5), patrolling nearby, assisted in extinguishing the fire . On February 24th, the Tattnall arrived at the shipyard at Naval Station Mayport for repairs. Before the repair work was completed, the ship completed a joint exercise with the West German destroyer Mölders (D 186) in August 1984 . The repair work was completed in February 1985.

The Tattnall completed one of its last missions in February 1990, when it was again relocated to the Mediterranean as part of the Sixth Fleet. There she took part in the Dragon Hammer and Flashing Scimitar missions with ships from other NATO countries . On August 19, 1990, the ship sailed through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea to support troops there during Operation Desert Shield in the Second Gulf War . This remained the Tattnall's only active war effort . After the ship was detached from the destroyer USS Sampson (DDG-10) in the Red Sea, it returned to Mayport.

On January 18, 1991, the Tattnall was decommissioned and moved to the reserve fleet in Philadelphia . The deletion from the Naval Vessel Register took place on January 12, 1993. In February 1999, the ship was sold for scrapping in Brownsville, Texas , where it arrived on March 18. The demolition work was completed by March 22, 2000.

Web links

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