CG-19 Dale

Country:  United States

Class, [Type]: Leahy, [CG].

Builder: New York Shipbuilding Company, Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Launch date: 28 July 1962.

Commission date: 23 November 1963.

Decommission date: 27 September 1994.

Displacement ( tons ): 7.800.

Dimensions ( metres ): 163 x 16,1 x 7,9

Main machinery: 4 x Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 2 x General Electric turbines ( 85.000 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 30+.

Complement: 430 ( 27 officers ).

Guns: 2 x GE/GD Vulcan Phalanx CIWS 20mm.

Missiles:  SAM: 2 x Mk10 Mod 0 launcher ( Standard ); SSM: 2 x Mk141 launchers ( Harpoon ); ASW: 1 x Mk16 launcher ( ASROC ).

Torpedoes: 2 x Mk32 triple launchers ( Mk46 torpedoes ).

Radar: Air: 1 x SPS-48E 3D, 1 x Raytheon SPS-49; Surface: 1 x SPS-10 or SPS-67; Fire Control: 1 x Mk14, 4 x Mk76, 1 x Mk111 ( ASROC ), 4 x Sperry SPG-55B.

Sonar: SQQ-23.

Countermeasures: Decoys: 4 x SRBOC Mk36 launchers. T Mk6 Fanfare, towed torpedo decoy. EW: SLQ-32.

Callsign: NERW ()

Comment: Ex - DLG19. Sunk in a SINKEX in the Atlantic on April 6th 2000.

Awards (as of 27/09/1994): 

Similar units:

 CG17 Harry E. Yarnell