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Destroyer
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DD 979
- USS Conolly
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Type,
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Destroyer - DD; Spruance
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Ingalls
Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, USA |
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STATUS:
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Awarded: January 15, 1974 Laid
down: September 29,
1975 Launched: February 19, 1977 Commissioned:
October 14,
1978 Decommissioned:
September 18,
1998 Fate: sunk as a target on April 29, 2009 |
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Homeport:
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Namesake:
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Named after and in
honor of Admiral Richard L. Conolly (1892 - 1962) > see history, below; |
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Ship’s
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LEADING THE WAY
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Technical Data:
(Measures, Propulsion, Armament, Aviation, etc.)
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ship
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A Mexican navy
Bo-105 Bölkow helicopter fires two 70 mm high-explosive rockets at the
decommissioned Spruance-class destroyer USS Conolly (DD 979) while under way
in the Atlantic Ocean April 29, 2009, during a sinking exercise in support of
UNITAS Gold. |
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Richard
Lansing Conolly
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Vice Admiral Raymond Spruance, Rear
Admiral Richard Conolly & Assistant SECNAV James Forrestal - February 1944
British General J. L. Hawksworth and RADM
Richard L. Conolly aboard USS Biscayne (AVP 11) - September 1943 |
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Admiral
Richard Lansing Conolly (1892 - 1962): |
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