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USS John Hancock in 1983
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | John Hancock |
Namesake | John Hancock |
Ordered | 15 January 1974 |
Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
Laid down | 16 January 1976 |
Launched | 29 October 1977 |
Acquired | 12 February 1979 |
Commissioned | 10 March 1979 |
Decommissioned | 16 October 2000 |
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Motto | First for Freedom |
Fate | Scrapped, 28 April 2007 |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Spruance-class destroyer |
Displacement | 8,040 (long) tons full load |
Length | 529 ft (161 m) waterline; 563 ft (172 m) overall |
Beam | 55 ft (16.8 m) |
Draft | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
Propulsion | 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 80,000 shp (60 MW) |
Speed | 32.5 knots (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph) |
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Complement | 19 officers, 315 enlisted |
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Electronic warfare & decoys |
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Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 2 × Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters. |
Aviation facilities | Flight deck and enclosed hangar for up to two medium-lift helicopters |
USS John Hancock (DD-981), a Spruance-class destroyer, was the second ship of that name, and the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named for Founding Father John Hancock (1737–1793), the President of the Continental Congress and first signer of the Declaration of Independence.