USS Wainwright (DLG-28)
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USS Wainwright (CG-28)
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| Name: | Wainwright |
| Namesake: | |
| Awarded: | 18 May 1961 |
| Laid down: | 2 July 1962 |
| Launched: | 25 April 1965 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Richard W. Wainwright; |
| Commissioned: | 8 January 1966 |
| Decommissioned: | 15 November 1993 |
| Reclassified: | CG-28 30 June 1975 |
| Homeport: | Charleston, SC |
| Motto: | Battle Tested, Battle Proven |
| Fate: | Sunk as target 12 JUN 2002 near Puerto Rico |
| Notes: | Participated in Operation Ivory Coast |
| Badge: | _Badge.jpg){kind=icon} |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Belknap |
| Displacement: | 7930 tons |
| Length: | 547 feet |
| Beam: | 55 feet |
| Draught: | 28 feet 10 inches |
| Speed: | 30 knots (30 mph; 60 km/h) |
| Complement: | 418 officers and men |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys: |
AN/SLQ-32 |
| Armament: | one Mark 42 five-inch / 54-caliber gun, two three-inch (76 mm) guns, one Terrier missile / SM-2ER launcher, six 15.5-inch (394 mm) torpedo tubes, Harpoon missiles, Phalanx CIWS |
USS Wainwright (DLG/CG-28), a Belknap-class destroyer leader, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for members of the Wainwright family; specifically, Commander Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, his son, Master Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Jr., and his cousin, Commander Richard Wainwright, as well as Rear Admiral Richard Wainwright, the son of Commander Richard Wainwright, and Commander Richard Wainwright, the son of Admiral Wainwright. Her keel was laid down on 2 July 1962 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works Corporation. She was launched on 25 April 1965 sponsored by Mrs. Richard W. Wainwright; and commissioned on 8 January 1966 at the Boston Naval Shipyard with Captain Robert P. Foreman in command.
Between January and May, the guided missile cruiser completed her outfitting at Boston, Massachusetts. On 21 May, she departed Boston, initially to test the Navy's newest sonar equipment and then to proceed to her home port, Charleston, South Carolina. During the months of June, July, and early August, she operated out of that port along the eastern seaboard and in the West Indies. During this period, she made six highly successful missile firings on the Atlantic Fleet weapon range and conducted a three-day search for an unidentified submarine contact. Though no positive identification of the submarine could be made, Wainwright did establish contact with her new long-range sonar and then tracked the vessel for a time.
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