USS Fox (CG-33)

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 Fox ( DLG-33/CG-33 ) was a guided missile cruiser Belknap class

History

The ship was in 1963 at Todd Pacific Shipyards Keel-laying and made in 1966 with the U.S. Navy in service.

Your first five patrol car passed the Fox 1967-1973 as part of the Vietnam War. There it served as a radar control center for fighter aircraft, which had taken off from the carriers and as a basis for a CSAR helicopter.

1975 was the Fox into the Indian Ocean, where she conducted exercises with the Royal Australian Navy and the Marine Iran. More journeys led the ship in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea, as well as the Sea of ​​Okhotsk. She has been involved before Vietnam to the rescue of Boat Peoples and participated in Operation Earnest Will. By 1993, several more missions were in the Persian Gulf in the operating time of the Fox.

In 1995, the cruiser was decommissioned and demolished in 2007.