Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
USS Vella Gulf was a Commencement Bay-class escort carrier of the United States Navy, originally named Totem Bay.The Commencement Bay class were built during World War II, and were an improvement over the earlier Sangamon class, which were converted from oil tankers.
As of Aug 2020, other units assigned to Carrier Strike Group 2 included the nine squadrons of Carrier Air Wing Three; the Ticonderoga-class cruisers USS Philippine Sea (CG-58); USS Monterey, USS Vella Gulf and the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers USS Mitscher, USS Laboon, USS Mahan, and USS Thomas Hudner from Destroyer Squadron 22.
Vella Gulf: CG-72 Ingalls Shipbuilding 22 April 1991 13 June 1992 18 September 1993 4 August 2022 [49] 28 years, 320 days Philadelphia, PA (formerly Norfolk) Decommissioned, sent to Reserve Fleet: Port Royal: CG-73 Ingalls Shipbuilding 18 October 1991 20 November 1992 9 July 1994 29 September 2022 [50] 28 years, 82 days Pearl Harbor, HI
Helicopters from HMS Northumberland and USS Vella Gulf were despatched with the US Navy declaring no threat. After the ship was captured, the Royal Navy seized a skiff believed to have been used in the attack. RPG munitions were offloaded into the sea along with cans of petrol and the skiff destroyed. [21]
He was the commander of the guided missile destroyer USS Bainbridge during the hijacking of MV Maersk Alabama. Captain Castellano was listed as executive officer of USS Vella Gulf on May 5, 2014, during a Holocaust memorial ceremony in Haifa, Israel. [2]
USS Canberra (CAG-2) USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5) USS Providence (CLG-6) USS Albany (CG-10) Artist conception of Strike cruiser Mark I variant (1976 version) With the exception of the purpose-built nuclear powered guided missile cruiser Long Beach, all of the early guided missile cruisers were converted heavy or light cruisers from the World War ...