USS Cole

The USS Cole (DDG 67) is a guided missile destroyer of the US Navy named for Marine Sergeant Darrell S. Cole, a machine gunner killed in action on Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945. She is an Arleigh Burke-class "Aegis" destroyer, part of the Atlantic fleet, and is homeported in [Pascagoula, Mississippi]?. She was built by [Ingalls Shipbuilding]? and delivered to the Navy on March 11, 1996.

On October 12, 2000, she was attacked from a small inflatable boat by suicide bombers.

• Length: 505 ft
• Waterline Length: 466 ft
• Extreme Beam: 66 ft
• Waterline Beam: 59 ft
• Maximum Navigational Draft: 31 ft
• Draft Limit: 22 ft
• Displacement
  • Light: 6767 tons
  • Full: 8889 tons
• Dead Weight: 2122 tons
• Propulsion: 4 LM-2500 General Electric gas turbines totalling 100,000 horsepower
• Speed: 31 knots
• Accommodations: Officers 26, Enlisted 315
• Armament
  • One 5"/54 caliber gun
  • Two 20mm Close-In Weapons Systems
  • 90-cell Vertical Launch System
  • Eight Harpoon missiles in quadruple canisters
  • Six 12.75" anti-submarine torpedoes in triple tube launchers