Wreck of USS Worden (CG-18)
USA /
Hawaii /
Princeville /
World
/ USA
/ Hawaii
/ Princeville
World
military, shipwreck, United States Navy
The Worden was the 3rd member of the Leahy Class of Guided Missile Cruisers and served with the US Pacific Fleet from 1963 to 1993, seeing action in both Vietnam and the First Gulf War, earning 9 Battle Stars in Vietnam and the Navy Unit Commendation and 1 Combat Action Ribbon in Desert Storm.
She decommissioned and was stricken on the same day in 1993 and she was placed into reserve at Pearl Harbor NISMF where she remained until June 17th, 2000 when she was sunk at this location at 2,560 fathoms during live fire excercises.
www.navsource.org/archives/04/1118/040118.htm
She decommissioned and was stricken on the same day in 1993 and she was placed into reserve at Pearl Harbor NISMF where she remained until June 17th, 2000 when she was sunk at this location at 2,560 fathoms during live fire excercises.
www.navsource.org/archives/04/1118/040118.htm
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Worden_(CG-18)
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 22°57'1"N 160°0'0"W
- Pacific Missile Range Facility 100 km
- Barking Sands Pacific Missile Range Facility Airport (PHBK / BKH) 103 km
- Naval Radio Transmitter Facility Lualualei 252 km
- Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific (NCTAMS PAC) 258 km
- Former Naval Air Station Barbers Point 267 km
- Runway 04/22L 269 km
- Joint Base Pearl Harbor - Ewa Annex 270 km
- Pearl Harbor 270 km
- Joint Base Pearl Harbor – Hickam (IATA: HIK – ICAO: PHIK) 274 km
- Wreck of USS Nevada (BB-36) 290 km