USS Buchanan underway in 1990
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Buchanan |
Namesake | Franklin Buchanan |
Ordered | 17 January 1958 |
Builder | Todd-Pacific Shipbuilding |
Laid down | 23 April 1959 |
Launched | 11 May 1960 |
Acquired | 31 January 1962 |
Commissioned | 7 February 1962 |
Decommissioned | 1 October 1991 |
Stricken | 20 November 1992 |
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Fate | Sunk as target 14 June 2000 |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Charles F. Adams-class destroyer |
Displacement |
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Length | 437 ft (133 m) |
Beam | 47 ft (14 m) |
Draft | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
Range | 4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
Complement | 354 (24 officers, 330 enlisted) |
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USS Buchanan (DDG-14) was a Charles F. Adams-class guided missile destroyer in service with the United States Navy from 1962 to 1991. She was sunk as a target in 2000.