USS Charles F.
Adams  DDG-2

• History - DDG-2

  • Name: Charles F Adams (DDG-2)
  • Namesake: Charles Francis Adams, III
  • Ordered: 28 March 1957
  • Builder: Bath Iron Works
  • Laid down: 16 June 1958
  • Launched: 8 September 1959
  • Commissioned: 10 September 1960
  • Decommissioned: 20 November 1992
  • Struck: 20 November 1992
  • Status: Museum hold, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard

• Class Characteristics

  • Class and type: Charles F. Adams-class destroyer
  • Displacement: 3,277 tons standard, 4,526 full load
  • Length: 437 ft (133 m)
  • Beam: 47 ft (14 m)
  • Draft: 15 ft (4.6 m)
  • Propulsion: 2 × General Electric steam turbines providing 70,000 shp (52 MW); 2 shafts
  • 4 x Babcock and Wilcox 1,275 psi (8,790 kPa) boilers
  • Speed: 33 knots (61 km/h)
  • Range: 4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h)
  • Complement: 354 (24 officers, 330 enlisted)
  • Sensors and processing systems: AN/SPS-39 3D air search radar
  • AN/SPS-10 surface search radar
  • AN/SPG-51 missile fire control radar
  • AN/SPG-53 gunfire control radar
  • AN/SQS-23 Sonar and the hull mounted SQQ-23 Pair Sonar for DDG-2 through 19
  • AN/SPS-40 Air Search Radar
  • Armament: 1 Mark 11 launcher (DDG2-14) or Mark 13 single arm launcher (DDG-15-24) for Tartar SAM system or later the
  • Standard SM-1 and Harpoon antiship missle
  • 2x Mark 42 5in(127mm)/54
  • 1x ASROC Launcher
  • 6x 12.8in(324mm) ASW Torpedo Tubes (2xMark 32 Surface Vessel Torpedo Tubes)
  • Motto: "First in class, second to none."
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