USS Cape Cod (AD 43)

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Name USS Cape Cod Laid down 27 January 1979 Commissioned 17 April 1982 Construction started 27 January 1979 Draft 8.23 m		Ordered 30 September 1977 Acquired 15 February 1982 Length 196 m Launched 2 August 1980 Beam 26 m

Namesake Cape Cod, Massachusetts Builders National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, San Diego

USS Cape Cod (AD-43) was the third Yellowstone-class destroyer tender in the United States Navy.

History

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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.

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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.