USS Norfolk (DL-1)
USS Norfolk (DL-1) underway in the mid-1960s | |
| Class overview | |
|---|---|
| Name | Norfolk class |
| Builders | New York Ship, NY (1) |
| Preceded by | Gearing class |
| Succeeded by | Mitscher class |
| Built | 1 Sep 1949 - 4 Mar 1953 |
| In commission | 4 Mar 1953 - 15 Jan 1970 |
| Planned | 2 |
| Completed | 1 |
| Cancelled | 1 |
| Scrapped | 1 |
| History | |
| United States | |
| Name | USS Norfolk |
| Builder | New York Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Laid down | 1 September 1949 |
| Launched | 29 December 1951 |
| Commissioned | 4 March 1953 |
| Decommissioned | 15 January 1970 |
| Stricken | 1 November 1973 |
| Identification | Hull number: DL-1 |
| Fate | Sold 22 August 1974 and scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Destroyer leader |
| Displacement | 5,600 tons |
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| Beam | 53 ft 6 in (16.3 m) |
| Draft | 19 ft (5.8 m) |
| Propulsion | 80,000 hp 60 MW diesel generators steam turbines, electro 500 kW initially 2 × 250 kW generators then 300, final 3 MW 4 × 750 kW |
| Speed | 32 knots |
| Range | 6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
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The second USS Norfolk (DL-1) was the first destroyer leader of the United States Navy. Originally projected as a hunter-killer cruiser, she was in service until 1970, and was scrapped in 1974.