USS Joseph Strauss

USS Joseph Strauss underway in 1968
History
United States
Name	Joseph Strauss
Namesake	Admiral Joseph Strauss
Ordered	21 July 1959
Builder	New York Shipbuilding Corporation
Laid down	27 December 1960
Launched	9 December 1961
Acquired	29 March 1963
Commissioned	20 April 1963
Decommissioned	1 February 1990
Stricken	11 January 1995
Identification	Callsign: NZSR Hull number: DDG-16
Motto	Promptus ad Agendum (Ready to act)
Fate	Sold to Greece, 1 October 1992
Greece
Name	Formion
Namesake	Phormio
Commissioned	1 October 1992
Decommissioned	29 July 2002
Identification	Hull number: D220
Fate	Scrapped, 19 February 2004
General 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 × Combustion Engineering 1,275 psi (8,790 kPa) boilers
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)
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 Mk 11 missile launcher (DDG2-14) or Mk 13 single arm missile launcher (DDG-15-24) for RIM-24 Tartar SAM system, or later the RIM-66 Standard (SM-1) and Harpoon antiship missile 2 × 5 in (127 mm)/54 caliber Mark 42 gun 1 × RUR-5 ASROC launcher 6 × 12.8 in (325 mm) ASW torpedo tubes (2 x Mark 32 Surface Vessel Torpedo Tubes)

USS Joseph Strauss (DDG-16), named for Admiral Joseph Strauss USN (1861–1948), was a Charles F. Adams-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy.

Joseph Strauss's keel was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden in New Jersey on 27 December 1960. The vessel was launched on 9 December 1961 by Mrs. Lawrence Haines Coburn, granddaughter of Admiral Joseph Strauss and commissioned on 20 April 1963.

During the Vietnam War Joseph Strauss served as plane guard for aircraft carriers on Yankee Station in the Tonkin Gulf, participated in Sea Dragon operations, patrolled on search and rescue duties and carried out naval gunfire support missions.