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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.
In 2021, for instance, USS Vella Gulf lasted just one week into a deployment before leaks in a fuel tank required it to return to port. More mechanical problems were soon uncovered, and the ship ...
Vella Gulf was 557 ft 1 in (169.80 m) long overall, with a beam of 75 ft (23 m) at the waterline, which extended to 105 ft 2 in (32.05 m) at maximum. She displaced 21,397 long tons (21,740 t) at full load , of which 12,876 long tons (13,083 t) could be fuel oil (though some of her storage tanks were converted to permanently store seawater for ...
[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:
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. All ships in these facilities are inactive, but some are still on the Naval Vessel Register (NVR), while others have been struck from the register.
The fourth USS Preble (DD-345/DM-20/AG-99) was a United States Navy Clemson-class destroyerin commission from 1920 to 1945. She served in China , including on the Yangtze Patrol , and later saw combat in World War II as a minelayer .
After six years, the cruiser USS Gettysburg is out of the BAE shipyard after an overhaul that should keep the 30-year-old ship in action into the late 2030s. The Navy has been trying for years to ...