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U.S.S. CONE
(DD-866)WHEREVER DUTY CALLS
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DD-866 Deployments - Major Events
Add a DD-866 Shellback Initiation | Add a DD-866 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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NOV | 1944 | - | Keel Date: 30 NOV 1944 at Bethlehem Steel Corporation Staten Island | ||
MAY | 1945 | - | Launch Date: 10 MAY 1945 | ||
AUG | 1945 | - | Commissioned: 18 AUG 1945 | ||
MAR | 1949 | - | OCT | 1949 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1950 | - | FEB | 1950 | Guantanamo Bay |
MAR | 1950 | - | OCT | 1950 | Mediterranean |
AUG | 1953 | - | APR | 1954 | Circumnavigation |
FEB | 1954 | - | Shellback Initiation - 21 FEB 1954 - Pacific Ocean | ||
FEB | 1956 | - | JUN | 1956 | Mediterranean-Lebanon |
SEP | 1959 | - | FEB | 1960 | North Atlantic-Med-Indian Ocean |
FEB | 1962 | - | MAR | 1963 | FRAM-I Brooklyn Navy Yard |
MAR | 1963 | - | APR | 1963 | Sea trials & Guantanamo Cuba at end of Cuban Missle Crisis |
AUG | 1963 | - | DEC | 1963 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
SEP | 1966 | - | JAN | 1967 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
AUG | 1967 | - | AUG | 1968 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
SEP | 1967 | - | MAY | 1968 | West Pac |
NOV | 1967 | - | JUL | 1968 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
SEP | 1969 | - | MAR | 1970 | Mediterranean |
JUL | 1970 | - | SEP | 1970 | Guantanamo Bay |
MAY | 1971 | - | JAN | 1972 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1972 | - | APR | 1973 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
OCT | 1972 | - | AUG | 1974 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
NOV | 1972 | - | MAR | 1973 | Mediterranean |
NOV | 1972 | - | MAR | 1973 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JAN | 1973 | - | Shellback Initiation - 23 JAN 1973 - Pacific Ocean | ||
OCT | 1973 | - | AUG | 1974 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JAN | 1975 | - | JAN | 1975 | North Atlantic |
JAN | 1976 | - | JAN | 1978 | Caribbean |
JAN | 1976 | - | DEC | 1977 | Guantanamo Bay |
JAN | 1976 | - | DEC | 1977 | Guantanamo Bay |
MAY | 1977 | - | MAY | 1977 | Caribbean |
DD-866 General Specifications
Class: Gearing class destroyer
Named for: Rear Admiral Hutch Ingham Cone
Complement: 367 Officers and Enlisted
Displacement: 2425 tons
Length: 390 feet 6 inches
Beam: 41 feet 1 inches
Flank Speed: 35 knots
Final Disposition: Disposed of through the Security Assistance Program (SAP) to Pakistan