| USS Cape Cod (AD-43) | |
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| Career (United States) |  |
| Name: | USS Cape Cod |
| Namesake: | Cape Cod, Massachusetts |
| Ordered: | 30 September 1977 |
| Builder: | National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, California |
| Laid down: | 27 January 1979 |
| Launched: | 2 August 1980 |
| Acquired: | 15 February 1982 |
| Commissioned: | 17 April 1982 |
| Decommissioned: | 29 September 1995 |
| Struck: | 7 April 1999 |
| Honours and awards: | Joint Meritorious Unit Award, Second Row, Navy Unit Commendation, Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (3), National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (2-Persian Gulf), Southwest Asia Service Medal, Kuwait Liberation Medal |
| Fate: | Final Disposition, fate unknown |
| Status: | Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River, Fort Eustis, VA. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Yellowstone-class destroyer tender |
| Displacement: | Approx. 20,500 tons full load |
| Length: | 643 feet (196 meters) |
| Beam: | 85 feet (25.9 meters) |
| Draft: | 27 feet (8.2 meters) |
| Propulsion: | Two boilers, steam turbines, one shaft, 20,000 shaft horsepower |
| Speed: | 20 knots |
| Complement: | 1500 |
| Armament: | One single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount |
| Armor: | None |
| Aircraft carried: | Helicopter platform |
USS Cape Cod (AD-43) was the third Yellowstone-class destroyer tender in the United States Navy.
History[]
Cape Cod was laid down on 27 January 1979 at San Diego, California, by the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company and launched on 2 August 1980. The destroyer tender worked for many years in active naval service. It assisted the Spruance-class destroyers, the Truxtun-class cruisers and Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates.[1] She was commissioned on 17 April 1982 and served 13 years as a destroyer tender before being decommissioned on 29 September 1995, and stricken from the Navy list on 7 April 1999. She was berthed at the James River Reserve Fleet in Fort Eustis, VA, until she was sold for scrap in 2012.
See also[]
- USS Barnstable County (LST-1197)
- SS Cape Cod (T-AK-5041)
External links[]
- http://gallery.linuxguru.net/uss-cape-cod-ad43
- http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/03/0343.htm
- http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/ad-41.htm
References[]
- This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.
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