USS Worden
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Worden |
Namesake | John Lorimer Worden |
Ordered | 7 November 1958 |
Builder | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine |
Laid down | 19 September 1961 |
Launched | 2 June 1962 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. William R. Smedberg III |
Acquired | 8 January 1971 |
Commissioned | 3 August 1963 |
Decommissioned | 1 October 1993 |
Reclassified | CG-18 on 30 June 1975 |
Stricken | 1 October 1993 |
Motto | ID FIAT WORDEN SI |
Fate | Sunk as target 17 June 2000
22° 57.1'N 160° 0.2'W |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Leahy-class cruiser |
Displacement | 7,903 tons |
Length | 533 ft (162 m) |
Beam | 53 ft (16 m) |
Draft | 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m) |
Speed | 34 kts |
Complement | 400 officers and enlisted |
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The fourth USS Worden (DLG/CG-18), a Leahy-class cruiser, was a ship of the United States Navy named in honor of Admiral John L. Worden. Originally called a "destroyer leader" or frigate, in 1975 she was redesignated a cruiser in the Navy's ship reclassification. The ship entered service in 1963 and participated in the Vietnam War.