USS Harry E. Yarnell (CG 17)

USS Harry E. Yarnell (CG-17) was a Leahy-class guided missile cruiser commissioned by the United States Navy in 1963. Named after Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, the ship served as a key component of the Atlantic Fleet during the Cold War, specializing in anti-air and anti-submarine warfare. Throughout her career, Yarnell participated in numerous NATO exercises, Mediterranean deployments, and crisis response operations, demonstrating U.S. naval presence and power projection. After nearly three decades of service, USS Harry E. Yarnell was decommissioned in 1993 and subsequently scrapped.