CG-17 USS Harry E. Yarnell Patch Military Insignia Navy Cruiser

This CG-17 USS Harry E. Yarnell Patch Military Insignia Navy Cruiser measures 5 inches and is new.

USS HARRY E. YARNELL was the second LEAHY-class guided missile cruiser. Reclassified as a guided missile cruiser on June 30, 1975, HARRY E. YARNELL was decommissioned and stricken from the Navy Register on October 29, 1993. Transferred to the Maritime Administration on February 15, 1994, she was laid up in the James River, Virginia, in the Reserve Fleet. Returned to the Navy on April 14, 1995, HARRY E. YARNELL was sold on February 16, 1995 to Northern Metal, New York City, for $294,692.34 for scrapping. Northern Metal was a subsidiary of N.R. Acquisition, Inc., of New York City and sub-contractors of that firm had been closed for polluting the environment. The scrapping contract was terminated in December 1996 and the ship was towed from Quonset Point, R.I., where she was being scrapped, to the Inactive Ship Facility in Philadelphia and accepted for lay-up. General Characteristics: Keel laid: May 31, 1960 Launched: December 9, 1961 Commissioned: February 2, 1963 Decommissioned: October 29, 1993 Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine Propulsion system:4 - 1200 psi boilers; 2 General Electric geared turbines Propellers: two Length: 535 feet (163 meters) Beam: 53 feet (16.1 meters) Draft: 26 feet (7.9 meters) Displacement: approx. 7,800 tons Speed: 30+ knots Aircraft: none Armament: two Mk 141 Harpoon missile launchers, two 20mm Phalanx CIWS, two Mk-10 missile launchers for Standard missiles (ER), Mk 46 torpedoes from two Mk-32 triple mounts, one Mk 16 ASROC missile launcher Crew: 27 officers and 413 enlisted