History | |
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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 |
Stricken | 7 April 1999 |
Honours and awards | Joint Meritorious Unit Award, 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 | Scrapped at ESCO Marine, 2012 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Yellowstone-class destroyer tender |
Displacement | Approx. 20,500 tons full load |
Length | 643 feet (196 meters) |
Beam | 85 feet (26 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 in (130 mm)/38 dual purpose gun mount |
Armor | None |
Aircraft carried | Helicopter platform |
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