| Career | USA | ||
| Role | Guided missile destroyer | ||
| Namesake : | Sgt Darrell S. Cole, USMC | ||
| Status : | in active service (as of 2012) | ||
| Ordered : | 16 January 1991 | ||
| Laid down : | 28 February 1994 | ||
| Launched : | 10 February 1995 | ||
| Builder: | Ingalls Shipbuilding | ||
| Commissioned : | 8 June 1996 | ||
| Homeport : | n/a | ||
| Badge: | |||
| Class and type : | Arleigh Burke class destroyer | ||
| Displacement : | Light: about 6,800 long tons (6,900 t) Full: about 8,900 long tons (9000 t) | ||
| Length : | 154 m (505 ft) | ||
| Beam : | 20 m (66 ft) | ||
| Draft : | 9.4 m (31 ft) | ||
| Propulsion : | 4 General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, two shafts, 100,000 total shaft horsepower (75 MW) | ||
| Speed : | 56 km/h ( > 30 knots) | ||
| Range : | 8,100 km at 37 km/h, 4,400 nautical miles at 20 knots | ||
| Complement : | 33 Officers, 38 Chief Petty Officers, 210 Enlisted Personnel | ||
| Ship systems : | n/a | ||
| Electronic warfare : | n/a | ||
| Armament : | n/a | ||
| Armor : | n/a | ||
| Aircraft carried : | 1 Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk helicopter | ||
| Motto : | n/a | ||
| Nicname : | n/a | ||
The USS Cole (DDG 67) is the second ship that has this name, it is a Aegis-equipped guided missile destroyer from the Arleigh Burke class. The USS Cole is homeported in Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia. The name Cole is in honor of a machine-gunner Darrell S. Cole (US Marine Sergeant), killed in action on Iwo Jima on the 19th of February 1945. The construction of the USS Cole was awarded to Ingalls Shipbuilding and the USS Cole was delivered to the U.S. Navy on the 11th of March 1996.
Table of contents
Ship's seal
Design and construction
Naming
Technology
Operational Service
Al-Qaeda attack
On 12 October 2000, while being at anchor in Aden, the USS Cole was attacked by several Al-Qaeda suicide bombers. The terrorists sailed with a small boat near the destroyer and detonated explosive charges. The power of the blast was so big that it created a hole in the port side of the ship about 12 m (40 feet) in diameter. The attack took the lives of 17 crewmembers and also injured 39. At the time of this attack the ship was under the command of Commander Kirk Lippold.
Upgrade
On 12 November 2009, the Missile Defense Agency announced that the USS Cole would be upgraded during fiscal year 2013 to RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) capability in order to function as part of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System.Commanding officers
See also
Further reading
Arleigh Burke class
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