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Photo # NH 98149-KN:  USS Dale steaming off shore during the 1980s or early 1990s

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USS Dale (DLG-19, later CG-19), 1963-2000

USS Dale, a 5670-ton Leahy-class guided-missile frigate built at Camden, New Jersey, was commissioned in November 1963. Assigned to the Pacific Fleet, she made five deployments to the Western Pacific over the next seven years. Between 1965 and 1970, Dale's Seventh Fleet tours included participation in Vietnam War operations, during which she rescued several American aviators in the Gulf of Tonkin.

In November 1970 Dale began modernization at Bath, Maine. This work fitted her with the Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS) and other improvements that enhanced her anti-air and anti-submarine warfare capabilities. When recommissioned in December 1971, Dale joined the Atlantic Fleet. While on the first of her many Sixth Fleet cruises, she operated in the eastern Mediterranean Sea during the tense period of U.S.-Soviet relations that accompanied the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War. Dale was reclassified as a guided-missile cruiser (CG-19) at the beginning of July 1975. A year later, in July 1976, she helped represent the U.S. Navy during the Bicentennial Naval Review in New York Harbor. During another Mediterranean deployment, in mid-1980, she entered the Black Sea to visit Romania.

As an important unit of the U.S. surface fleet, Dale was regularly updated, receiving "Harpoon" surface-to-surface guided missiles and the "Phalanx" gun system in 1981 and the New Threat Upgrade combat systems enhancement later in that decade. During the 1980s her Mediterranean tours were sometimes extended to take her into the increasingly important Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf regions. In 1986 she took part in the confrontation with Libia's hostile regime.

Dale spent much of her final years of service on counter-narcotics patrols in the Caribbean area as well as on regular cruises with the Sixth Fleet. During 1991 she went to the Red Sea to help enforce sanctions against Iraq after that nation's defeat in the war over Kuwait. She had similar duties in 1993-94, in support of United Nations' Resolutions concerning Bosnia and Yugoslavia. USS Dale was decommissioned in September 1994. She was sunk as a target in January 2000.

USS Dale was named in honor of Commodore Richard Dale (1756-1826), who served in the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War and in the United States Navy in the late 1790s and early 1800s.

This page features, and provides links to, selected views related to USS Dale (DLG-19, later CG-19).

For more pictures concerning USS Dale, see:

  • USS Dale (DLG-19) -- Construction Views.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: K-29715 (Color)

    USS Dale (DLG-19)

    Launching a Terrier guided missile, while steaming off Point Mugu, California, in April 1964.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

    Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 605 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: NH 98142

    USS Dale (DLG-19)


    Underway in the Yellow Sea, 27 April 1969.
    Photographed by PH1 J.E. Penner, of USS Enterprise (CVAN-65).

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 124KB; 595 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98143

    USS Dale (DLG-19)


    Off Bath, Maine, following her anti-air warfare modernization, 5 October 1971.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 120KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98145

    USS Dale (DLG-19)


    Off Bath, Maine, on 5 October 1971, following her anti-air warfare modernization.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 116KB; 585 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98146

    USS Dale (DLG-19)


    Off Bath, Maine, on 5 October 1971, following her anti-air warfare modernization. Bath Iron Works shipyard is at left.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 131KB; 590 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98144

    USS Dale (DLG-19)


    Underway off Bath, Maine, following her anti-air warfare modernization, 6 October 1971.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 130KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     
    Photo #: K-94987

    USS Dale (DLG-19)


    Underway in the Caribbean Sea, July 1972.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

    Online Image: 117KB; 740 x 590 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-K-94987.
    Though reproductions of this photo from the Naval Historical Center's collections are available in black & white only, those from the National Archives should be available in color.

     
    Photo #: KN-23732

    USS Dale (DLG-19)


    Underway off Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, 5 June 1975.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

    Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 500 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-KN-23732.
    Though reproductions of this photo from the Naval Historical Center's collections are available in black & white only, those from the National Archives should be available in color.

     
    Photo #: NH 98147

    USS Dale (CG-19)


    Anchored in New York Harbor, dressed with flags and manning her her rails in recognition of Independence Day, 4 July 1976.
    Dale was one of the ships present for the U.S. Bicentennial International Naval Review and Operation Sail.
    Photographed by PHAN Gaudreau.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 495 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98148-KN (color)

    USS Dale (CG-19)

    Underway at sea, during the 1980s or early 1990s.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 106KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98149-KN (color)

    USS Dale (CG-19)

    Steaming off shore, during the 1980s or early 1990s.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 141KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 68394-KN (Color)

    USS Dale (DLG-19)

    Jacket patch of the insignia adopted in 1963.

    Courtesy of Captain G.F. Swainson, USN, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 172KB; 650 x 675 pixels

     

    For more pictures concerning USS Dale, see:

  • USS Dale (DLG-19) -- Construction Views.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    Page made 31 October 2002
    New image added 12 January 2003