Destroyer Leaders
The DLG sequence was deactivated in the 1975 fleet realignment. DL-1 through DL-5 had been decommissioned prior to this time; DLG-6 Farragut through DLG-15 Preble became DDG-37 through DDG-46. DLG-16 Leahy through DLGN-40 Mississippi became CG-16 through CGN-40.
- (DL-1) Norfolk
- (DL-2) Mitscher
- (DL-3) John S. McCain
- (DL-4) Willis A. Lee
- (DL-5) Wilkinson
- (DL-6) Farragut
- (DL-7) Luce
- (DL-8) Macdonough
- Hull numbers DL-9 through DL-15 were never used
- (DLG-16) Leahy
- (DLG-17) Harry E. Yarnell
- (DLG-18) Worden
- (DLG-19) Dale
- (DLG-20) Richmond K. Turner
- (DLG-21) Gridley
- (DLG-22) England
- (DLG-23) Halsey
- (DLG-24) Reeves
- (DLGN-25) Bainbridge
- (DLG-26) Belknap
- (DLG-27) Josephus Daniels
- (DLG-28) Wainwright
- (DLG-29) Jouett
- (DLG-30) Horne
- (DLG-31) Sterett
- (DLG-32) William H. Standley
- (DLG-33) Fox
- (DLG-34) Biddle
- (DLGN-35) Truxtun
- (DLGN-36) California
- (DLGN-37) South Carolina
- (DLGN-38) Virginia
- (DLGN-39) Texas
- (DLGN-40) Mississippi
(CGN-41 Arkansas was authorized after the 1975 fleet reorganization and was never designated with or carried the hull classification symbol DLGN)
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