History: USS Cole DDG-67
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| Career | @career@ | ||
| 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 : | @homeport@ | ||
| Badge: | |||
| Class and type : | Arleigh Burke class destroyer | ||
| Displacement : | @displacement@ | ||
| Length : | @length@ | ||
| Beam : | @beam@ | ||
| Draft : | @propulsion@ | ||
| Propulsion : | @propulsion@ | ||
| Speed : | @speed@ | ||
| Range : | @range@ | ||
| Complement : | @complement@ | ||
| Ship systems : | @systems@ | ||
| Electronic warfare : | @ewarfare@ | ||
| Armament : | @armament@ | ||
| Armor : | @armor@ | ||
| Aircraft carried : | @aircraftcarried@ | ||
| Motto : | @motto@ | ||
| Nicname : | @nickname@ | ||
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.
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Ship's seal
Design and construction
Naming
Technology
Operational Service
Commanding officers
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