USS Preble DL-15 / DLG-15 / DDG-46

Type:
Destroyer
Class:
Farragut 1957 (Class Overview)
Builder:
Bath Iron Works
Bath, Maine

Hull Number:
DL-15
DLG-15 (Nov. 11, 1956)
DDG-45 (June 30, 1975)

Ordered:
October 26, 1956
Commissioned:
May 9, 1960
Keel Laid:
December 16, 1957
Decommissioned:
November 15, 1991
Launched:
May 23, 1959
Stricken:
November 20, 1992
Fate:
Sold Mar. 20, 2002 to Metro Machine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and scrapped.




Notes
Christened by Mrs. Ralph E. Wilson.

Lt. Clyde E. Lassen USN awarded the Medal of Honor while serving on Preble during the
Vietnam War.



Builder's Data
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