[Zavien Doombringer]

USS Chicago (CG-11) 1974-1978, Gridley (DLG-21) and Lockwood (DD1064)

Yep, you are telling your age. I just asked about these buckets to an old salt here, he hasn't quit laughing yet...

[Billthedrill]

Oh, yeah - Chicago's keel was laid in 1943, after her predecessor decorated the bottom off Rabaul. She was rebuilt during the Cold War as a missile cruiser, but retained the below-decks CIC (my GQ station), torpedo belt, and armored decks and hatches. Kind of nice to be sitting down there with the MiGs making runs on us from North Vietnam. I was actually in the Philippines when I transferred off during her last WESTPAC.