USS ''Dahlgren'' (DLG-12/DDG-43) was the 7th ship in the
guided missile destroyer in the
United States Navy
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. She was
launched on 16 March 1960 by
Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
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and sponsored by Mrs. Katharine D. Cromwell, granddaughter of Rear Admiral
John Adolphus Dahlgren. She was
commissioned on 8 April 1961. She was the third ship in the Navy to bear the name. Commissioned as DLG-12, ''Dahlgren'' was reclassified a guided missile destroyer on July 1, 1975 and given the new hull number DDG-43. The ship saw service until 1992, when she was placed in reserve. She was sold for
scrapping three times, the first time in 1994, but was repossessed twice as the ship breaking companies failed. The ship was finally dismantled in 2006.
Fate
''Dahlgren'' was
decommissioned 31 July 1992 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 20 November 1992.
''Dahlgren'' was transferred to the
James River Reserve Fleet
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on 1 July 1993. ''Dahlgren'' was sold to N.R. Acquisition,
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, New York on 15 April 1994 for $283,711.78 for scrapping. N.R. Acquisition then subcontracted the actual scrapping to Wilmington Resources of
Wilmington, North Carolina
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. Wilmington Resources changed their name to Sigma Recycling in January 1996 and then lost their permits to dismantle ships on 24 July 1996.
''Dahlgren'' was among 10 ships repossessed by the Navy on 30 September 1996. Upon being returned to the Navy, ''Dahlgren'' was sold to International Shipbreakers of
Brownsville, Texas
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on 10 February 1999. ''Dahlgren'' was repossessed for a second time on 10 July 2000 after the scrap yard failed to take delivery of the ship in a timely manner. On 29 July 2005, a contract was issued to ESCO Marine of Brownsville, Texas to dismantle ''Dahlgren'' for $2,653,018.
''Dahlgren'' was completely dismantled on 28 March 2006.
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Farragut-class destroyers (1958)
1960 ships