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    The second USS Norfolk (DL-1) was the first destroyer leader of the United States Navy. Originally projected as a hunter-killer cruiser, she was in service...
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  • was cancelled in August 1945 USS Norfolk (DL-1) was a destroyer leader/frigate in service from 1953 to 1970 USS Norfolk (SSN-714) is a Los Angeles-class...
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    destroyers: USS Carpenter (DDE-825), USS Robert A. Owens (DDE-827) destroyer leader: USS Norfolk (DL-1), Mitscher-class destroyer leaders - USS Mitscher (DL-2)...
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    facilities; USS Brush (DD-745); USS Carpenter (DDE-825); USS Norfolk (DL-1); Recruiting Duty, Columbia, Tennessee; USS Springfield (CL-66); USS Independence (CV-62);...
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    Sea-Air-Space Museum. The RUR-4's rocket round. RUR-4 launch from USS Wilkinson (DL-5), 1956. Fitzsimons, Bernard, ed. "Depth Charge", in Encyclopedia...
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    removed from deployment. One of the first ASROC installations was on USS Norfolk (DL-1) in 1960. The first large group of ships to receive ASROC were 78...
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    USS Mitscher (DL-2/DDG-35), named for Admiral Marc "Pete" Mitscher USN (1887–1947), was the lead ship of her class of destroyer leaders of the United States...
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    United States Navy, sorted by hull number. It includes all of the series DD, DL, DDG, DLG, and DLGN. CG-47 Ticonderoga and CG-48 Yorktown were approved as...
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  • Wisconsin Square (category Parks in Norfolk, Virginia)
    serving on United States Navy ships homeported in Norfolk. It also contains the ship's bell of USS Norfolk (DL-1) and a copy of The Lone Sailor. Wisconsin Square...
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    refit with 7 twin mounts USS Norfolk (DL-1) – built with 4 twin mounts USS Truxtun (CGN-35) – built with 2 single mounts USS Tulare (LKA-112) – built...
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  • USS Northampton (CLC-1). see USS Norfolk (DL-1). See USS Halibut (SSGN-587). See USS Guavina (SSO-362). See USS Triton (SSRN-586). See X-1 submarine. In 2020...
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    Boston-class cruiser Baltimore-class cruiser Forrest Sherman-class destroyer USS Norfolk (DL-1) Bronstein-class frigate Brooke-class frigate Garcia-class frigate...
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    USS John S. McCain (DL-3/DDG-36) was the second Mitscher-class destroyer leader in the United States Navy. Commissioned in 1953, she was later converted...
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    USS Macdonough (DLG-8/DDG-39) was a Farragut-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Commodore Thomas Macdonough,...
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    Norfolk after 5 months med deployment, visiting ports including Athens, Greece, Naples, Italy, La Spezia, Italy, and Ashdod, Israel 4/12/1981 - USS Flying...
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  • CLK-1, clk1, or variation, may refer to: USS Norfolk (CLK-1), post-World War II light cruiser reclassified as a destroyer leader (DL) clk-1 (gene), the...
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    USS Wilkinson (DL-5) was a Mitscher class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Vice Admiral Theodore Stark "Ping" Wilkinson USN (1888–1946)...
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    forced-circulation boilers in DL-2 and DL-3; and Foster Wheeler boilers in DL-4 and DL-5. DL-2 and DL-3 had General Electric turbines while DL-4 and DL-5 had Westinghouse...
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    experimental Norfolk, they would have been the first post-war destroyer class had they not been reclassified during construction as destroyer leaders (DL). Commissioned...
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    submarine from Cape Hatteras to Norfolk. In March 1956, Sunbird assisted Skylark (ASR-20) in removing the destroyer Willis A. Lee (DL-4) from rocks in Narragansett...
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    example of a destroyer built on a cruiser hull was the experimental DL-1 Norfolk, which was originally classed as a hunter-killer cruiser (CLK). Since...
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    USS William V. Pratt (DLG-13/DDG-44) was a Farragut-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy. She was commissioned in 1961 as DLG-13 and...
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    the Confederates were converting the captured USS Merrimack to an ironclad at the naval shipyard in Norfolk, Virginia. Subsequently, the urgency of Monitor's...
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    commander, took command of the sloop-of-war USS Saratoga when she was recommissioned at Norfolk Navy Yard in Norfolk, Virginia. Assigned to the Home Squadron...
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    decommissioned in 1999. A total of 41 ships bore the DL classification. Norfolk was ordered as CLK-1 prior to commissioning. Mitscher was ordered as DD-927...
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    to navies around the world; giving birth to the torpedo boat, including USS Cushing of the United States Navy. During the Spanish–American War, Assistant...
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    Two ships of the Navy have been named USS Mitscher in his honor: the post-World War II frigate, USS Mitscher (DL-2), later re-designated as the guided-missile...
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    USS Coontz (DLG-9/DDG-40) was a Farragut-class destroyer leader/frigate in the United States Navy. She was named after Admiral Robert Coontz, the US Navy's...
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    Naval Station Norfolk with the German Sachsen-class frigate Hessen, preparatory to both deploying on a Composite Training Unit Exercise with USS Harry S. Truman...
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    C4-S-1 class freighter, a modification of the Type C4. Finally, the yard produced its largest destroyers yet, USS Willis A. Lee (DL-4) and USS Wilkinson (DL-5)...
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