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USS Bulkeley (DDG-84) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named for Medal of Honor recipient Vice Admiral John D. Bulkeley. This ship is the 34th destroyer of its class. USS Bulkeley was the 15th ship of this class to be built at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and construction began on 10 May ...
The US Navy destroyer USS Bulkeley (DDG-84), commissioned in 2001, is named after him. Route 57 in Mansfield Township, Warren County, New Jersey, is named the "Admiral John D. Bulkeley Memorial Highway" in his honor. [13] The headquarters building of Naval Station Guantanamo Bay is named Bulkeley Hall. A quartering area for sailors at the naval ...
USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) This is a list of destroyers of the United States Navy, sorted by hull number.It includes all of the series DD, DL, DDG, DLG, and DLGN. CG-47 Ticonderoga and CG-48 Yorktown were approved as destroyers (DDG-47 and DDG-48) and redesignated cruisers before being laid down; it is uncertain whether CG-49 Vincennes and CG-50 Valley Forge were ever authorized as destroyers ...
USS Bulkeley (DDG-84) and USS Cole (DDG-67) fired a “dozen interceptors” at missiles targeting Israel. Naval reports say both destroyers have the aegis weapons system designed for ballistic ...
DDG-51 to 84: 2 × 20 mm (0.8 in) Phalanx CIWS; DDG-85 onwards: 1 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS; 2 × 25 mm (0.98 in) Mk 38 machine gun system; 1 × Optical Dazzling Interdictor, Navy [N 2] DDG-88: 1 × High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) Missiles: Flights I & II only: 2 × Mk 141 Harpoon anti-ship missile launcher
Soon after war engulfed the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, however, Squadron Two's ships returned to the Pacific in December 1941 with the first carrier deployed to the Pacific, USS Yorktown, and operated with "The Mighty Y" in the Early Pacific Raids (February–March 1942), the Battle of the Coral Sea (4–8 May 1942) (where Sims was lost), and the Battle of Midway (4–6 June 1942 ...
USS Buckley (DE-51) was the lead ship of her class of destroyer escorts in the service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946. After spending 23 years in reserve, she was scrapped in 1969. After spending 23 years in reserve, she was scrapped in 1969.
The Buckley-class destroyer escorts were 102 destroyer escorts launched in the United States in 1943–44. They served in World War II as convoy escorts and antisubmarine warfare ships. The lead ship was USS Buckley which was launched on 9 January 1943. The ships had General Electric steam turbo-electric transmission.