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USS Vella Gulf (CG-72) was a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser that served with the United States Navy.She was the second ship named for the Battle of Vella Gulf, a naval engagement in the Solomons campaign of World War II, the first being USS Vella Gulf (CVE-111), an escort carrier commissioned in 1945.
The names of these are sometimes incorrectly reported as Vela Gulf. The first USS Vella Gulf (CVE-111) was an escort carrier in service for just over a year, during 1945 and 1946. The second USS Vella Gulf (CG-72) was a guided missile cruiser commissioned in 1993. She was decommissioned in 2022, pending a decision on her fate.
The size, armament, and mission of the Type 055 are often compared to the US Navy's Ticonderoga-class cruiser.Measuring 567 feet long, displacing around 10,000 tons, and first entering service in ...
The U.S. Coast Guard on Tuesday announced the deployment of personnel and equipment to various maritime borders in the United States, a day after President Donald Trump dismissed the military ...
Aircraft carriers stored at the NISMF in Bremerton, 2012.From left to right: Independence, Kitty Hawk, Constellation and Ranger. A Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF) is a facility owned by the United States Navy as a holding facility for decommissioned naval vessels, pending determination of their final fate.
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[14] The budget did not specify which cruisers could be retired, and the Navy ultimately chose to retire Monterey (CG-61), Hué City (CG-66), Anzio (CG-68), Vella Gulf (CG-72), and Port Royal (CG-73). In April 2022, the Navy requested to retire all 17 remaining cruisers by the end of Fiscal Year 2027. [15] The schedule was as follows:
USS George Washington Carrier Strike Group underway in the Atlantic USS Constitution under sail for the first time in 116 years on 21 July 1997 The United States Navy has approximately 470 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 50 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 110 new ships are in either the planning and ordering ...