3-701: USS Cape Cod (AD-43) was the third Yellowstone -class destroyer tender in the United States Navy . 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 . She
6-604: Was a class of four destroyer tenders in service with the United States Navy from 1980 to 1996. The Yellowstone class was a repetition of the preceding Samuel Gompers class , so that sometimes all ships are put in one class. All ships were commissioned in 1980 to 1983 to replace the ageing Dixie class . However, the end of the Cold War in 1990 led to the retirement of the Yellowstone class after only 13 to 16 years of service. After spending about another 15 years in
9-766: 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. This article about a specific ship or boat of the United States Armed Forces is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Yellowstone-class destroyer tender The Yellowstone class
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