USS Gridley (DLG-21)

USS Gridley (CG-21)
History
United States
Name	Gridley
Namesake	Charles Vernon Gridley
Builder	Puget Sound Bridge and Drydock Company, Seattle, Washington
Laid down	15 July 1960
Launched	31 July 1961
Commissioned	25 May 1963
Decommissioned	10 September 1968
Recommissioned	17 January 1970
Decommissioned	21 January 1994
Reclassified	CG-21 on 30 June 1975
Stricken	21 January 1994
Motto	World's Greatest Cruiser[citation needed]
Fate	Sold for scrap to International Shipbreaking LTD, Brownsville, TX. 4 October 2003. Reacquired from MARAD 23 January 2004. Scrapping completed on 31 March 2005.
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General characteristics
Class and type	Leahy-class cruiser
Displacement	7400 tons
Length	533 feet
Beam	53 feet
Draft	26 feet
Propulsion	2 × De Laval steam turbines providing 85,000 shp (63 MW); 2 shafts 4 × Foster-Wheeler boilers
Speed	30 knots
Complement	373 officers and men
Sensors and processing systems	AN/SPS-39 followed by AN/SPS-48 3D air search radar AN/SPS-43 followed by AN/SPS-49 2D air search radar AN/SPS-10 surface search radar AN/SPG-55 missile fire control radar AN/SQS-23 bow mounted sonar
Electronic warfare & decoys	AN/SLQ-32 Mark 36 SRBOC
Armament	four 3 in (76 mm)/50 guns (Later replaced by 8 Harpoon anti-ship missiles), two Mk 32 SVTT Mounts with three Mk 46 torpedoes each, four Terrier missile launchers (Later replaced with Standard Missiles), one ASROC launcher, 2 Phalanx CIWS Mounts ('70's era and later)

USS Gridley (DLG-21/CG-21), a Leahy-class guided missile cruiser, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named after Charles Vernon Gridley, who distinguished himself with Admiral George Dewey's force at the Battle of Manila Bay on 1 May 1898.

Her keel was laid down by the Puget Sound Bridge and Drydock Company of Seattle, Washington. She was launched on 31 July 1961 sponsored by Mrs. Stuart D. Rose, great-granddaughter of Captain Gridley, and commissioned on 25 May 1963.^[1]