USS Fox (CG-33)
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USS Fox (CG-33)
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| Name: | USS Fox |
| Namesake: | Gustavus Fox |
| Ordered: | 16 January 1962 |
| Builder: | Todd Shipyards, Los Angeles Division, San Pedro, California |
| Laid down: | 15 January 1963 |
| Launched: | 21 November 1964 |
| Acquired: | 20 May 1966 |
| Commissioned: | 8 May 1966 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 April 1994 |
| Reclassified: | CG-33 on 30 June 1975 |
| Struck: | 15 April 1994 |
| Homeport: | NS San Diego (former) |
| Motto: | "Faire Sans Dire" |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap to International Shipbreaking LTD, Brownsville, TX. Scrapping completed 28 October 2007. |
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| Class and type: | Belknap-class cruiser |
| Displacement: | 7,930 tons |
| Length: | 547 ft (167 m) |
| Beam: | 55 ft (17 m) |
| Draft: | 28 ft 10 in (8.79 m) |
| Speed: | 30 knots (35 mph; 56 km/h) |
| Complement: | 418 officers and men |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys: |
AN/SLQ-32 |
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USS Fox (DLG-33) was a Belknap class cruiser of the United States Navy, named after Gustavus V. Fox, President Abraham Lincoln's Assistant Secretary of the Navy. The keel for DLG-33 was authenticated and laid in ceremonies at Todd Shipyards, Los Angeles Division, San Pedro, California on 15 January 1963.
Rear Admiral Frank Virden, then Commander Cruiser-Destroyer Force, US Pacific Fleet, presided over the ceremonies for the unnamed ship. Christening and launching ceremonies were performed at on 21 November 1964. Fox entered naval service as a guided missile frigate (DLG) on 28 May 1966 when commissioned at Long Beach Naval Shipyard under the guidance of her first commanding officer, Captain Robert O. Welander.
Fox subsequently transited to her homeport of San Diego on 6 October 1966 and become the first ship in the Pacific Fleet capable of launching both anti-submarine rockets (ASROC) and surface-to-air guided missiles from the same launching system.
USS Fox, as DLG-33, wasted no time distinguishing herself. Participating in support of the large scale troop build up in Vietnam, and consequent increase in aircraft operations, her technology at the time was formidable. Her actions not only included support to the Vietnam War shore operations in the Western Pacific but she did so at her primary duty station off the coast of North Vietnam as the northern search and rescue ship controlling aircraft carrier-launched combat aircraft at PIRAZ. On a normal day, Fox monitored the activity of 200 Navy and Air Force missions. In particular, on 23 October 1967, a Fox air controller directed two F-4 fighters from the carrier USS Constellation to intercept the subsequent kill of a North Vietnamese MIG-21 aircraft over Hanoi. It was the first time during the Vietnam War a shipboard controller had directed an intercept which resulted in a shoot-down of enemy aircraft. For such gallantry, Fox was awarded the Meritorious Unit Commendation graciously accepted by her then CO: Captain R.O. Whelander.
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