USS Harry E. Yarnell in 1967
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Harry E. Yarnell |
Namesake | Harry E. Yarnell |
Ordered | 11 July 1958 |
Builder | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine |
Laid down | 31 May 1960 |
Launched | 9 December 1961 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Philip Yarnell |
Acquired | 25 January 1963 |
Commissioned | 2 February 1963 |
Decommissioned | 20 October 1993 |
Reclassified | CG-17 on 30 June 1975
Ship refresher training Guantanamo Ship Port Au Prince HaitiShip Med Cruise / Black Sea/Constanta, Romania |
Stricken | 29 October 1993 |
Fate | Sold for scrap. Scrapping completed 17 April 2002 |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Leahy class cruiser |
Displacement | 7,800 tons full load |
Length | 547 ft (167 m) |
Beam | 55 ft (17 m) |
Draft | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
Propulsion | Steam turbines, 4 1200 psi boilers, 85,000 hp, 2 shafts |
Speed | 30+ knots |
Complement | 395 |
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USS Harry E. Yarnell (DLG/CG-17) was a Leahy-class guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy. Named in honor of Admiral Harry E. Yarnell,, she was originally classified as a "destroyer leader" or frigate, in 1975 she was redesignated a cruiser in the Navy's ship reclassification. She was the second of the "double-end" Leahy-class guided missile frigates to join the fleet.