USS Wainwright (CG-28)

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USS Wainwright (DLG-28 / CG-28) 1991
career USN Jack
Ordered: May 18, 1961
Keel laying: July 2nd, 1962
Launch: April 25, 1964
Commissioning: January 8, 1966
Decommissioning: November 15, 1993
Fate: Sunk June 12, 2002 as a target ship
Technical specifications
Displacement : 7,957 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 Wainwright (DLG-28 / CG-28) was a United States Navy cruiser and belonged to the Belknap class .

history

The Wainwright was laid down as a destroyer leader with guided missiles (DLG = Destroyer Leader Guided Missile) at Bath Iron Works in 1962 and commissioned in 1966.

From 1967 the ship took part in the Vietnam War, including serving as a radar control center during Operation Rolling Thunder .

In the 1970s, the Wainwright was part of the 6th fleet in the Mediterranean. From September 1973 to the end of 1974 the ship was in the Charleston Naval Shipyard for the first regular overhaul. In 1975, the reclassification was to missile cruiser (CG = Cruiser Guided Missile), also visited Romania the first American warship. In 1979 launch containers for anti-ship missiles of the type AGM-84 Harpoon were installed on board.

In the 1980s, the Wainwright spent most of her service time in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic, in 1988 the ship took part in Operation Praying Mantis and was involved in the sinking of an Iranian warship after it had fired missiles at the Wainwright .

In the 1990s, the Wainwright received a so-called New Threat Upgrade and only came back to the fleet in 1991. The first transfer took place in 1992, the cruiser drove as part of the carrier combat group around the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) as part of Operation Provide Hope . In 1993 the ship was finally decommissioned. Until 2002, the ship was part of the reserve fleet in Philadelphia , until the Wainwright was sunk on June 12, 2002 as a target ship. She was hit by two harpoon the previous day, but remained buoyant overnight, so that she was sunk by two torpedoes.

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