USS William H. Standley (CG-32)
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| Ordered: | January 16, 1962 |
| Keel laying: | July 29, 1963 |
| Launch: | December 19, 1964 |
| Commissioning: | July 9, 1966 |
| Decommissioning: | February 11, 1994 |
| Fate: | SINKEX |
| Technical specifications | |
| Displacement : | 8957 ts |
| 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: | 64 officers, 546 men |
The USS William H. Standley (DLG-32 / CG-32) was a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy and belonged to the Belknap class . It was named after Admiral William H. Standley , who was Chief of Naval Operations and later the US Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
history
The DLG-32 was commissioned from Bath Iron Works in 1962 and laid down there in mid-1963. At the end of 1964, the ship was launched and, after completing the final equipment and the first test drives, was put into service on July 9, 1966.
In the first years of her service, the Standley drove off the coast of Vietnam, where she took part in the Vietnam War . In total, the crew won five Battle Stars during this time . From 1972 operations followed in the Atlantic fleet, including in the Mediterranean. In 1975 the ship was reclassified from DLG ( destroyer leader ) to CG (cruiser).
From June 1990 the Standley was in the shipyard for over a year, where it received the New Thread upgrade , essentially an improvement in the ship's electronics and armament. Due to the end of the Cold War , the cruiser was decommissioned three and a half years after undocking. Until 2005 she was in Suisun Bay , San Francisco , where she was part of the reserve fleet there. On June 25th of that year she was sunk in an exercise together with the Spruance destroyer USS Elliot (DD-967) . The two ships now form artificial reefs in the Coral Sea , approximately 100 miles east of Fraser Island , Australia.
Web links
- Entry in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (English)
- CG-32.com (English)