USS Halsey (DLG-23)

Halsey was launched on 15 January 1962 at San Francisco Naval Shipyard, having been sponsored by late Admiral Halsey's, for whom the ship is named after, granddaughters Margaret Denham and Jane Halsey. She was then commissioned on 20 July 1963. Halsey departed from San Francisco on 25 November 1963 for the Bangor Submarine Base in the Hood Canal for testing. She was then sent to San Diego, arriving on 11 December. Halsey was assigned to Destroyer Squadron 7 and participated in a special sea power demonstration for the Secretary of the Navy. She then went on to conduct weapons qualification trials from January to February 1964 and performed a shakedown cruise over the next two months. She returned to the San Francisco Naval Shipyard on 15 May 1964 and concluded her post-shakedown on 17 July 1964. == Active service ==

During her first years of active service, Halsey experimented with a unique operations system which combined the responsibilities of the CIC with all weapons systems, and also involved separate hull and communications administrations departments. Halsey was reclassified as a guided-missile cruiser and redesignated CG-23 on 30 June 1975. For the rest of Halsey's career, she spent her time participating in regular operations in the West Pacific and Indian Ocean. She was involved in Operations Desert Storm and Desert Shield in the Gulf War. ==Fate==

Halsey was decommissioned and struck from the Naval Vessel Register in January 1994. She was scrapped in 2003. == References ==