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| Author of this picture: | Leo Van Ginderen collection |
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CG49 Vincennes |
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| name: CG49 Vincennes built: 1985 call sign: N/A IMO nr: N/A flag: USA final update: 28/02/2009 |
dimensions: 172.80 x 16.70 x 9.70m
type: "Ticonderoga" class cruiser speed: 30.00 kn crew: 387 |
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| On 03/07/1988 this cruiser shot down the civilian airliner IR655 of the Airbus A300 type. Due to circumstances the Vincennes had identified the airliner as an Iranian F14 fighter jet. All 290 souls were lost. | |
| Decommissioned 29/06/2005, will be scrapped toghether with her sistervessels CG48 Yorktown and CG51 Thomas S. Gates | |
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