Talk:USS Sterett (CG-31)

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I had the opportunity to tour this ship when it was in Long Beach Harbor a number of years ago. Glad someone wrote an article on her, but I'm sorry to hear she was scrapped. Great memory, though. - Lucky 6.9 02:14, 19 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I just created the article at 02:08, October 19, 2006 (UTC), it's just a stub now, maybe someone will enhance it. There are lots of ships that don't have articles, I was surprised that this one was missing since it was fairly recently decommissioned. The NTU overhaul in 1991 must have cost millions, it seems like such a waste to dump those ships so soon after the upgrades. The fuel efficiency of the boilers must have played a major role vs the current gas turbines used. William H. Standley CG-32 article, coming soon. She was sunk as a target, Image:USS Standley (CG 32) sinking.jpg. --Dual Freq

Ahoy, lots of info that could be included. Maybe somebody should shout at the Sterett Web site and invite one of them folks to add some stuff. The Sterett did shoot down at least one N. Vietnamese MIG jet in 1972. When I was aboard in 1976 the Sterett was a flagship for some admiral. In that same year the Sterett tested the then relatively new Harpoon anti-ship missile, destroying a target ship at the Pacific missile test site off the southern California coast. The Belknap class was designed to protect aircraft carriers from air and submerged threats with a minimal abilty to confront surface threats. Since the carrier was better equipped to handle surface threats with its aircraft the lack of gunnery and the limited number of Harpoon missiles carried was not critical. The Sterett had a fairly advanced computer system for its time; the Navy Tactical Data System (NTDS). Obbop 02:12, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Frigates
I really didn't think that anyone would contest the change I made, changing the definition of the hull designation of DLG from "Frigate" to "Destroyer Leader", but here we are.

If you go to the U.S. Navy's website and search for "DLG", you will find a series of articles in which DLG is either defined as "guided missile destroyer" or guided missile destroyer leader". There are only two pages that define DLG as "guided missile frigate" and one is a copy of the other.

In addition, no one I know that ever served aboard a DLG (while it was a DLG) would have called their ship a "frigate".

The only reference to them being Frigates in the Navy.mil website is on a handful of ship histories, but not all of them.

I don't know who called them "frigates" but the Navy doesn't (and didn't) and the sailors that served on them don't (and didn't.)

I also would like to call your attention to the USS Norfolk (DL-1), the USS Mitscher (DL-2), the USS John S. McCain (DL-3), the USS Willis A. Lee (DL-4), and the USS Wilkinson (DL-5). If a DL is a Destroyer Leader, why isn't a DLG a Guided Missile Destroyer Leader?

-TCav 01:02, 6 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Please see centralized discussion at Talk:USS Fox (CG-33). TomTheHand 15:05, 9 July 2007 (UTC)