Moored in Portsmouth harbour 2-10-07
USS Cole (DDG-67)

The second USS Cole (DDG 67) is an Arleigh Burke class Aegis-equipped guided missile destroyer homeported in NS Norfolk, Virginia. The Cole is named in honor of Marine Sergeant Darrell S. Cole, a machine-gunner killed in action on Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945.

She was built by Ingalls Shipbuilding and delivered to the Navy on 11 March 1996.
History
The Cole deployed to the Middle East on June 8, 2006 for the first time since the bombing
Career
Ordered: 16 January 1991 Laid down: 28 February 1994 Launched: 10 February 1995 Commissioned: 8 June 1996
Status: Active in service as of 2007
General Characteristics Displacement: 8,315 tons (8,448 t) Length: 505 ft (153.9 m) Beam: 66 ft (20.1 m) Draught: 31 ft (9.4 m)
Propulsion: 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW) Speed: 30+ knots (56+ km/h)
Complement: 337 officers and enlisted
Armament: 1 × 29 cell, 1 × 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 90 × RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles 1 × 5/54 in (127/54 mm), 2 × 25 mm, 4 × 12.7 mm guns, 2 × Phalanx CIWS 2 × Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft: 1 SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter can be refueled and rearmed. Flight IIA DDG-79 and following can embark helicopters
Motto: Gloria Merces Virtutis "Glory is the Reward of Valor"