USS Leahy (DLG-16)
USS Leahy
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| Name: | Leahy |
| Namesake: | William D. Leahy |
| Ordered: | 7 November 1958 |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine |
| Laid down: | 3 December 1959 |
| Launched: | 1 July 1961 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Michael J. Mansfield |
| Acquired: | 27 July 1962 |
| Commissioned: | 4 August 1962 |
| Decommissioned: | 18 February 1967 |
| Recommissioned: | 4 May 1968 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 October 1993 |
| Reclassified: | CG-16 on 1 July 1975 |
| Struck: | 1 October 1993 |
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| Motto: | Prompta et Parata (Prompt and Ready) |
| Nickname(s): | "Sweet 16" |
| Fate: | Dismantled/scrapped in Brownsville, Texas 2005 by International Shipbreaking Limited |
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| Class and type: | Leahy-class cruiser |
| Displacement: | 8281 tons fully loaded |
| Length: | 533 ft (162 m) |
| Beam: | 55 ft (17 m) |
| Draft: | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 shaft; gear turbines; 4 boilers; 85,000 shp (63,000 kW) |
| Speed: | 32 knots (37 mph; 59 km/h) |
| Range: | 8,000 nmi (15,000 km) at 20 knots (23 mph; 37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 37 officers and 408 enlisted |
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USS Leahy (DLG/CG-16) was the lead ship of a new class of destroyer leaders in the United States Navy. Named for Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, she was commissioned on 4 August 1962 as DLG-16, a guided missile frigate, and reclassified as CG-16, a guided missile cruiser, on 30 June 1975.
From 1962 to 1976, Leahy operated as a unit of the Atlantic Fleet and from 1976 to 1993 as a unit of the Pacific Fleet. She made six Mediterranean deployments (Sixth Fleet), two UNITAS Latin America cruises and eight Western Pacific deployments (Seventh Fleet), completed three Panama Canal transits, and crossed the equator over a dozen times. She traveled the seas from the easternmost end of the Mediterranean to the westernmost edge of the Indian Ocean. She steamed far north to Leningrad, Russia, and the Aleutian Islands; and far south for two passages through the Straits of Magellan. Over the course of her sixteen major deployments, Leahy made port calls on six continents—North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.
Leahy served longer than any other ship of her class. After more than 31 years of active service all over the globe, the "Sweet 16" was decommissioned on 1 October 1993. After another 11 years in the reserve fleet, she was scrapped in Brownsville, Texas, in 2005.
Leahy was the first of a new "double-ender" class fitted with Terrier (later Standard ER) missile launchers fore and aft, and the first and only frigate class designed without a main gun battery for shore bombardment or ship-vs.-ship engagements. The gun armament was reduced in order to carry a larger missile load. One of the principal missions of these ships, like their predecessors, the Farragut class, was to form part of the anti-air (AAW) and anti-submarine (ASW) screen for carrier task forces while also controlling aircraft from the carrier by providing vectors to assigned targets.
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