![]() USS Fox (CG-33) on 16 December 1988
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Name | USS Fox |
Namesake | Gustavus Fox |
Ordered | 16 January 1962 |
Builder | Todd Shipyards, Los Angeles Division, San Pedro, California |
Laid down | 15 January 1963 |
Launched | 21 November 1964 |
Acquired | 20 May 1966 |
Commissioned | 8 May 1966 |
Decommissioned | 15 April 1994 |
Reclassified | CG-33 on 30 June 1975 |
Stricken | 15 April 1994 |
Homeport | NS San Diego (former) |
Motto | "Faire Sans Dire" |
Fate | Sold for scrap to International Shipbreaking LTD, Brownsville, TX.[1] Scrapping completed 28 October 2007. |
Badge | ![]() |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Belknap-class cruiser |
Displacement | 7,930 tons |
Length | 547 ft (167 m) |
Beam | 55 ft (17 m) |
Draft | 28 ft 10 in (8.79 m) |
Speed | 30 knots (35 mph; 56 km/h) |
Complement | 418 officers and men |
Sensors and processing systems | |
Electronic warfare & decoys | AN/SLQ-32 |
Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 1 sh-2 seasprite asw helicopter |
Aviation facilities | helipad and hangar |
USS Fox (DLG-33/CG-33) was a Belknap class cruiser of the United States Navy, named after Gustavus V. Fox, President Abraham Lincoln's Assistant Secretary of the Navy. The keel for DLG-33 was authenticated and laid in ceremonies at Todd Shipyards, Los Angeles Division, San Pedro, California on 15 January 1963.[1]
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