Good discussion at this web page: IT also covers decommissioningh "logic" of the recent cruisers, naming of frigates and cruisers, and related data. Worth "bookmarketing" 8<)
http://www.hazegray.org/faq/smn6.htm
Section F.13: Ships damaged in the Persian Gulf
Four US warships have suffered major damage in the Persian Gulf during 1980's/1990's conflicts. They are:
Guided Missile Frigate USS Stark (FFG 31): Struck by two Exocet missiles 17 May 1987. An Iraqi Marage F1 aircraft supposedly mistook Stark for an Iranian ship. Stark's SLQ-32 EW system detected the aircraft's radar; the only action the ship took was to attempt to communicate with the aircraft. The ship's Phalanx CIWS was not operating at the time. The CIWS and 76 mm gun were masked by her masts; no attempt was made to turn and un-mask those weapons. The missiles penetrated the hull, below the main deck level, under the port forward corner of the main superstructure. One missile detonated and the fuel from both missiles burned. 37 crewmen died; the ship was heavily damaged and was nearly lost due to the weight of firefighting water. She was saved by excellent damage control efforts. Temporary repairs were carried out by the destroyer tender Acadia (AD 42) at Bahrain. She then returned to the US under her own power. Repairs at Litton/Ingalls took 15 months and cost $90 million.
Guided Missile Frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG 58): Struck an Iranian mine 14 April 1988. She suffered a 22 foot hole in her side, a 9 foot tear in her bottom and a cracked superstructure; her gas turbine engines were knocked out of position. There were no fatalities. The incident did not attact as much attention as the Stark incident because there were no fatalities and no fire. Damage was actually more severe and the ship came closer to being lost because the structure of her hull was severely weakened and she was severely flooded. (Stark's hull structure was mostly unaffected, and she was not flooding.) After emergency repairs, Robertys departed the Gulf on 1 July 1988, aboard the deckship Mighty Servant 2. She was repaired at Bath Iron Works (Portland Ship Repair Facility) at a cost of $37.5 million. Repairs took 18 months.
Amphibious Assualt Ship USS Tripoli (LPH 10): Mined 18 Feb 1991 at 0430. While operating minesweeping helicopters, she struck a moored contact mine. The mine blew a 20 x 30 foot hole in the starboard side of the hull, below the waterline, forward. There were no fatalities. Repairs in Bahrain required one month.
Guided Missile Cruiser USS Princeton (CG 59): Mined 18 Feb 1991 at 0716. After Tripoli was mined, Princeton moved between her and a shore battery, unknowingly moving into a minefield. The cruiser detonated an Iraqi bottom-laid influence mine, and the detonation of that mine set off another. The second mine did no damage. The first mine exploded just forward of the aft 5 inch mount, flexing the ship's stern upwards and sending severe "whipping" vibrations throughout the ship. The entire fantail was left tilted upwards and twisted sideways. The main strength girder of the hull was broken; hull strength in the stern was 80% destroyed. There was extensive shock damage to the propellers, shafts, aft weapons systems, fuel tanks, the double bottom, and the superstructure. Despite the damage, her forward weapons systems and the Aegis system were back online within two hours.
Princeton was towed out of the minefield by the tug Beaufort (ATS 2), escorted by a minesweeper. The crippled cruiser arrived at Bahrain the next day. Temporary repairs were made by crews from the repair ship Jason (AR 8). More permanent repairs were made at Dubai, in order to get the ship back to the US under her own power. Ingalls Shipbuilding diverted a large amount of material intended for cruisers still under construction and sent it to the Persian Gulf to speed repairs to Princeton. The repairs in Dubai took 5 weeks. Following Princeton's return to Long Beach Naval Shipyard, additional repair work was carried out to complete the job started in Dubai.
Destroyer Paul F. Foster (DD 964): Struck, but did not detonate, a moored contact mine a few days after Princeton was mined. Her propellers cut a gash through the mine within inches of the detonator horns.
Still used to this day as an example of how to do damage control right. The structure of her hull was so "severely weakened" that her crew used lockwire and Band-It straps to keep her from breaking in half.