USS Belknap (CG-26)
8957 ts
166.7 m
16.8 m
9.4 m
64 officers, 546 teams
4 Water -tube boilers of Brown & Wilcox 2 geared turbines from General Electric 2 propellers
34 kn
The USS Belknap ( DLG-26/CG-26 ) was an American guided missile cruiser Belknap class.
History
The Belknap in 1962 laid at Bath Iron Works in Kiel, the launch took place 17 months later. Baptism led by Mrs. Leonard B. Cresswell. The cruiser was made in Boston Naval Shipyard, Boston, MA on November 7, 1964 in the service. The first commander of the ship was Capt.. John T. Law.
On November 22, 1975, the Belknap was badly damaged off Sicily by a collision with the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV -67). At night, in heavy seas, the Belknap came under the overhanging flight deck of JFK. Thus, a fire broke out aboard the Belknap. Since the superstructure of the cruiser were made of an aluminum alloy, the magnesium content ignited in the heat itself, this melted down to the steel deck a completely. On the Belknap seven sailors lost their lives on the support of a. The unloading process also met the Charles F. Adams destroyer USS Claude V. Ricketts (DDG -5). This fire resulted in the Navy to the decision, ships, despite the weight, again completely constructed from fire resistant steel. The Belknap was found after the accident out of service until 1978 was thinking about the way forward. Options included the integration of the Aegis combat system. However, the available funds were not sufficient for this, and so the ship was built up to 1980 again in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and returned to the fleet. A few years later, the ship was converted so that it could serve as a flagship. Here is another deckhouse was added under other before the forward superstructure. Around 1990 the ship was then flagship of the 6th Fleet.
The Belknap served the U.S. President George HW Bush in 1989 as accommodation during the disarmament negotiations with the Soviet Union in Malta.
In 1995, the Belknap was withdrawn from service and three years later sunk as a target ship.