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05-20-2015, 11:12 AM
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Fleet Week 2015 launches with 'Parade of Ships' Wednesday morning
http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/201..._1219.html
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Celebration of this year's Fleet Week kicks off Wednesday morning with the Parade of Ships sailing into New York Harbor at approximately 10 a.m.
The USS Stout (DDG 55) -- a U.S. Navy Arleigh-Burke-class Aegis guided-missile destroyer with a crew of 33 officers, 38 chief petty officers and 210 enlisted personnel -- will lead the parade of military vessels.
Stout was named for Rear Admiral Herald F. Stout (1903–1987), who distinguished himself as the commanding officer of the destroyer USS Claxton during World War 2 by aiding his task force in sinking five heavily armed enemy warships to establish a beachhead on Bougainville Island in the South Pacific.
The following ships will sail into the Harbor behind the Stout:
The Navy's Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided-missile destroyer USS Barry (DDG 52).
The Navy's amphibious transport dock USS San Antonio (LPD 17).
U.S. Coast Guard cutters Sturgeon Bay (WTGB 109) and Spencer (WMEC 905).
Four U.S. Naval Academy 703-class yard patrol boats.
Fleet Week 2015 launches with 'Parade of Ships' Wednesday morning
http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/201..._1219.html
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Celebration of this year's Fleet Week kicks off Wednesday morning with the Parade of Ships sailing into New York Harbor at approximately 10 a.m.
The USS Stout (DDG 55) -- a U.S. Navy Arleigh-Burke-class Aegis guided-missile destroyer with a crew of 33 officers, 38 chief petty officers and 210 enlisted personnel -- will lead the parade of military vessels.
Stout was named for Rear Admiral Herald F. Stout (1903–1987), who distinguished himself as the commanding officer of the destroyer USS Claxton during World War 2 by aiding his task force in sinking five heavily armed enemy warships to establish a beachhead on Bougainville Island in the South Pacific.
The following ships will sail into the Harbor behind the Stout:
The Navy's Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided-missile destroyer USS Barry (DDG 52).
The Navy's amphibious transport dock USS San Antonio (LPD 17).
U.S. Coast Guard cutters Sturgeon Bay (WTGB 109) and Spencer (WMEC 905).
Four U.S. Naval Academy 703-class yard patrol boats.