USS WORDEN (DLG-18) at Sea
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| The fourth ship of the Fleet honoring John L. Worden who commanded the USS Monitor that engaged the CSS Virginia off Hampton Roads on 9 March 1862. This "battle of the ironclads" revolutionized the design of Naval ships. USS WORDEN (DLG-18) was built by Bath Iron Works Corporation, Bath, Maine and first commissioned on 3 August 1963. After extensive modernization by the same company, she was recommissioned on 16 January 1971. |
