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USS Cole (DDG-67)
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| Ordered: | 16 January 1991 |
| Laid down: | 28 February 1994 |
| Launched: | 10 February 1995 |
| Commissioned: | 8 June 1996 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Status: | Active in service as of 2007 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 8,315 tons (8,448 t) |
| Length: | 505 ft (153.9 m) |
| Beam: | 66 ft (20.1 m) |
| Draught: | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW) |
| Speed: | 30+ knots (56+ km/h) |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 337 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 1 × 29 cell, 1 × 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 90 × RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles 1 × 5/54 in (127/54 mm), 2 × 25 mm, 4 × 12.7 mm guns, 2 × Phalanx CIWS 2 × Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes |
| Aircraft: | 1 SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter can be refueled and rearmed. Flight IIA DDG-79 and following can embark helicopters |
| Motto: | Gloria Merces Virtutis "Glory is the Reward of Valor" |
The second USS Cole (DDG 67) is an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis-equipped guided missile destroyer homeported in NS Norfolk, Virginia. The Cole is named in honor of Marine Sergeant Darrell S. Cole, a machine-gunner killed in action on Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945. The ship was built by Ingalls Shipbuilding and delivered to the Navy on 11 March 1996.
On October 12, 2000, the Cole was hit by a suicide bombing attack while it was harbored in the Yemeni port of Aden. 17 sailors were killed.
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For more details on this topic, see USS Cole bombing.
On 12 October 2000, while under the command of Commander Kirk Lippold, the Cole was attacked from a small boat by Al-Qaida[citation needed] suicide bombers, while she was harbored in the Yemeni port of Aden. Seventeen sailors were killed and 39 were injured. The U.S. government offered a reward of up to US $5 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of those persons who committed or aided in the attack on Cole. On 4 November 2002, Ali Qaed Sinan al-Harthi, who is believed to have planned the attack, was killed by the CIA using an AGM-114 Hellfire missile launched from an MQ-1 Predator unmanned drone.
Cole was returned to the United States aboard the Norwegian semi-submersible heavy-lift MV Blue Marlin owned by Offshore Heavy Transport of Oslo, Norway. The ship was off-loaded 13 December 2000, from Blue Marlin in a pre-dredged deep-water facility at the Pascagoula, Mississippi, shipyard of Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, Ingalls Operations. After 14 months of repair, Cole departed on 19 April 2002, and returned to her homeport of Norfolk, Virginia. Cole left Norfolk on 29 November 2003 on the destroyer's first overseas deployment since it was bombed in the year 2000.
Al-Qaeda, a terrorist group, probably targeted Cole because an earlier attempt to attack USS The Sullivans on January 3, 2000 had failed. This was one of the 2000 millennium attack plots.
The Cole deployed to the Middle East on June 8, 2006, for the first time since the bombing.
On 21 August 2006, the Associated Press reported that the Cole's commanding officer at the time of the bombing, Commander Kirk Lippold was denied promotion to the rank of Captain.[1]
It was reported in March 2007 that the families of the 17 sailors killed in the blast are heading to court to try to prove the attack could not have happened without the help of Sudan's government. "Sudan's material support ... including continuous flow of funding, money, weapons, logistical support, diplomatic passports and religious blessing, was crucial in enabling the attack on the USS Cole," lawyers for the families said in court papers outlining their case. [2] On March 14, 2007 it was reported that U.S. District Judge Robert G. Doumar said, "There is substantial evidence in this case presented by the expert testimony that the government of Sudan induced the particular bombing of the Cole by virtue of prior actions of the government of Sudan." [3]
On 25th July 2007, a US court led by Doumar ordered Sudan to pay $8m compensation to the families of the 17 sailors who died. He calculated the amount they should receive by multiplying the salary of the sailors by the number of years they would have continued to work.[4]
- USS Cole, for other ships of that name
- USS Samuel B. Roberts
- MV Blue Marlin
- Rewards for Justice Site
- Official website of USS Cole
- DDG-67 Personnel Roster at HullNumber.com
- USS Cole webpage
- navsource.org: USS Cole
- USS Cole Association
- Official Department of Defense FOIA files on the USS Cole [1] [2] [3]
- USS Cole Redeploys
- Maritimequest USS Cole DDG-67 Photo Gallery
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| Flight I ships |
Arleigh Burke | Barry | John Paul Jones | Curtis Wilbur | Stout | John S. McCain | Mitscher | Laboon | Russell | Paul Hamilton | Ramage | Fitzgerald | Stethem | Carney | Benfold | Gonzalez | Cole | The Sullivans | Milius | Hopper | Ross |
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| Flight IIA ships |
5"/54 variant: Oscar Austin | Roosevelt |
| List of destroyers of the United States Navy | List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy | |