![]() USS Belknap (CG-26)
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Name | Belknap |
Namesake |
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Ordered | 16 May 1961 |
Builder | Bath Iron Works |
Laid down | 5 February 1962 |
Launched | 20 July 1963 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Leonard B. Cresswell, the grand-daughter and daughter of the RADMs Belknap |
Acquired | 4 November 1964 |
Commissioned | 7 November 1964 |
Decommissioned | 20 December 1975 |
Recommissioned | May 1980 |
Decommissioned | 15 February 1995 |
Reclassified | CG-26 on 30 June 1975 |
Stricken | 15 December 1995 |
Fate | Sunk as target on 24 SEP 1998
036° 31' 00.3" North 071° 58' 00.5" West 2050 fathoms |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Belknap-class cruiser |
Displacement | 8957 tons |
Length | 547 ft (167 m) |
Beam | 55 ft (17 m) |
Draft | 31 ft (9.4 m) (maximum navigational) |
Propulsion | Two sets GE or De laval steam turbines. total 85,000 shp (63 MW) |
Speed | maximum speed 34 knots (63 km/h) |
Complement | 64 officers and 546 enlisted |
Sensors and processing systems | |
Electronic warfare & decoys | AN/SLQ-32 |
Armament |
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USS Belknap (DLG-26/CG-26), named for Rear Admirals George E. Belknap (1832–1903) and his son Reginald Rowan Belknap (1871–1959), was the lead ship of her class of guided missile cruisers in the United States Navy. She was launched in 1963 as DLG-26, a guided missile frigate under the then-current designation system, and reclassified as CG-26 on 30 June 1975.
On 22 November 1975, Belknap and the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy collided, killing seven sailors on the cruiser and one on the aircraft carrier.
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