USS Cape Cod

Tender of the United States Navy

History
United States
Name| USS Cape Cod
Namesake| Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Ordered| 30 September 1977
Builder| National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, California
Laid down| 27 January 1979
Launched| 2 August 1980
Acquired| 15 February 1982
Commissioned| 17 April 1982
Decommissioned| 29 September 1995
Stricken| 7 April 1999
Honours and
awards| Joint Meritorious Unit Award, Navy Unit Commendation, Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (3), National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (2-Persian Gulf), Southwest Asia Service Medal, Kuwait Liberation Medal
Fate| Scrapped at ESCO Marine, 2012
General characteristics
Class and type| Yellowstone-class destroyer tender
Displacement| Approx. 20,500 tons full load
Length| 643 feet (196 meters)
Beam| 85 feet (26 meters)
Draft| 27 feet (8.2 meters)
Propulsion| Two boilers, steam turbines, one shaft, 20,000 shaft horsepower
Speed| 20 knots
Complement| 1500
Armament| One single 5 in (130 mm)/38 dual purpose gun mount
Armor| None
Aircraft carried| Helicopter platform

USS Cape Cod (AD-43) was the third Yellowstone-class destroyer tender in the United States Navy.

## History

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Cape Cod was laid down on 27 January 1979 at San Diego, California, by the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company and launched on 2 August 1980. The destroyer tender worked for many years in active naval service. It assisted the Spruance-class destroyers, the Truxtun-class cruisers and Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates.[1]

She was commissioned on 17 April 1982 and served 13 years as a destroyer tender before being decommissioned on 29 September 1995, and stricken from the Navy list on 7 April 1999. She was berthed at the James River Reserve Fleet in Fort Eustis, VA, until she was sold for scrap in 2012.

## See also

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* USS Barnstable County (LST-1197)
* SS Cape Cod (T-AK-5041)

## References

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1. ^ Yellowstone (AD-41)

* This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.

## External links

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* http://gallery.linuxguru.net/uss-cape-cod-ad43
* http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/03/0343.htm
* http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/ad-41.htm

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Yellowstone-class destroyer tenders

* Yellowstone
* Acadia
* Cape Cod
* Shenandoah
* AD-45

* Preceded by: Samuel Gompers class
* Followed by: None

* List of auxiliaries of the United States Navy

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