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]
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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