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Battlecruiser Belknap — — A Place in History The first BELKNAP (DD 251), named in honor of Rear Admiral George Eugene Belknap, USN, was launched 14 January 1919. Following her shakedown cruise BELKNAP served in the Mediterranean with the 28th Division, U. S. Atlantic Fleet, until placed in reserve at Charleston Navy Yard in 1920. She was decommissioned 28 June at Philadelphia Navy Yard, remaining there until 1940. During 1940 BELKNAP was converted into a seaplane tender (reclassified AVD 8) and recommissioned 22 November 1940. Her first assignement was with Patrol Wing 5 at Hamilton, Bermuda. From August 1942 to January 1944, she served with BOGUE, CROATAN and VOTR hunter-killer groups in the Atlantic. Reclassified (DD 251) 14 November 1943, BELKNAP received the Presidential Unit Citation for her service with task group 21.12 BOGUE Group. Following convoy duty along the East and Gulf coasts, February - June 1944, BELKNAP underwent conversion into a high speed transport (reclassified APD 34). Her conversion completed, BELKNAP arrived in the Pacific in September 1944. During 18-22 October she served as a screen ship during the Leyte invasion and during January 1945 as a shore bombardment and beach reconnaissance vessel at the Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, landings. After being damaged by a Japanese suicide plane, BELKNAP was returned to Philadelphia Navy Yard Decommissioned in 1945, scrapped in 1946. via the West Coast. BELKNAP was sold and The second BELKNAP is named in honor of Rear Admiral George Eugene Belknap and his son. Rear Admiral Reginald Rowan Belknap. The lead ship of a new class of guided missile frigates, she was built by the Bath Iron Works Corporation, Bath, Maine. Originally designated as DLG 26, BELKNAP is designed for an overall length of 547 feet; and extreme beem of 54 feet 10 inches; full load displacement of 7900 tons, designed speed of over 30 knots and accommodations for 31 officers and 387 men. The initial armament included a dual TERRIER- ASROC missile launcher, a 5754 caliber gun mount; two 3750 caliber guns; two single torpedo tubes; two triple torpedo tubes; and a Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter System. Her keel was laid on 5 February 1962 and she was commissioned in the Boston Naval Shipyard on 7 November 1964. BELKNAP completed her fitting out at Boston in February 1965, then departed for a shakedown cruise to Bermuda. She departed Norfolk in April for a Fleet research project with guided missile destroyers, frigates, and the nuclear guided missile cruiser LONG BEACH (CGN 9). During the succeeding ten years BELKNAP success- fully participated in many and varied exercises and projects. Among them were the PUEBLO Incident, for which she was awarded the Vietnam Service Medal and the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal. BELKNAP a so received the Meritorius Unit Commen- dation for her role In operations during the Jordanian Civil War. DD-251
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