USS Dale (DLG-19)
USS Dale (CG-19)
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| Name: | Dale |
| Namesake: | Richard Dale |
| Ordered: | 7 November 1958 |
| Laid down: | 6 September 1960 |
| Launched: | 28 June 1962 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Daniel J. Flood |
| Acquired: | 8 November 1963 |
| Commissioned: | 23 November 1963 |
| Decommissioned: | 11 October 1970 |
| Recommissioned: | 12 November 1971 |
| Decommissioned: | 27 September 1994 |
| Struck: | 27 September 1994 |
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Sunk as target 6 April 2000 037° 35' 59.0" North 070° 45' 04.0" West 2150 Fathoms |
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| Class and type: | Leahy-class cruiser |
| Displacement: | 8520 tons (full) |
| Length: | 533 ft (162 m) |
| Beam: | 55 ft (17 m) |
| Draft: | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shaft; De Laval gear turbines; 4 Foster Wheeler boilers; 85,000 shp |
| Speed: | 32 kn (59 km/h; 37 mph) |
| Range: | 8,000 @ 20 knots |
| Complement: | 32 officers, 413 enlisted |
Sunk as target 6 April 2000 037° 35' 59.0" North 070° 45' 04.0" West
USS Dale (DLG-19/CG-19) was a United States Navy 5670-ton Leahy-class cruiser. Dale was named in honor of Commodore Richard Dale (1756–1826).
Dale was built at New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, USA and commissioned at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on 23 November 1963. Her sponsor was Mrs. Daniel J. Flood. Assigned to Commander Cruiser-Destroyer Force Pacific Fleet, she made five deployments to the Western Pacific over the next seven years. Between 1965 and 1970, Dale's Seventh Fleet tours included participation in Vietnam War operations, during which she rescued several American aviators in the Gulf of Tonkin.
On 10 November 1970 Dale was decommissioned and began modernization at Bath, Maine to increase flexibility in combat systems. This work fitted her with the Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) and other improvements that enhanced her anti-air and anti-submarine warfare capabilities. When recommissioned on 11 December 1971, Dale was assigned to Commander Cruiser-Destroyer Force, Atlantic Fleet and homeported in Newport, Rhode Island.
In Dale's first Mediterranean deployment in June 1973, she participated in the multinational exercise "Swift Move" in northern European Waters, and helped augment the Sixth Fleet during in the eastern Mediterranean during the tense period of U.S.-Soviet relations that accompanied the October 1973 Yom Kippur War.
In February 1974, Dale moved to her new homeport in Mayport, Florida. During 1974, Dale was selected as the operational platform for the newly deployed AN/SPS-49 two dimensional air search radar, which took Dale to the Caribbean several times during 1974 and early 1975.
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