Title

USS Conolly (DD-979)

Photographer

Courtesy of the Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum

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Subject

USS Conolly (DD-979)' Port Everglades, US Navy, Naval Air Station, Fort Lauderdale

Description

USS Conolly (DD-979), named for Admiral Richard Lansing Conolly USN, was a Spruance-class destroyer built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula, Mississippi. Namesake: Richard Lansing Conolly Ordered: 15 January 1974 Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding Laid down: 29 September 1975 Launched: 3 June 1977 Acquired: 25 September 1978 Commissioned: 14 October 1978 Decommissioned: 18 September 1998 Stricken: 18 September 1998 Motto: Leading the Way Fate: Sunk as a target, 29 April 2009

Date Digital

2019

Format

color photographic print

Digital Collection

NASFL Ships