Hull Number: AD-43
Launch Date: 08/02/1980
Commissioned Date: 04/17/1982
Decommissioned Date: 09/29/1995
Call Sign: NCOD
Namesake: CAPE COD
Wikipedia (as of 2024)
The first ship in the Navy named after the peninsula projecting from the southern coast of Massachusetts and bounded by the Cape Cod Canal, Atlantic Ocean, and the Nantucket Sound. It was named by an English explorer in 1602 after the fish found most plentiful in the area.
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Wikipedia (as of 2024)
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.[1]
She 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.