USS Lawrence underway on 3 May 1973
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United States | |
Name | Lawrence |
Namesake | James Lawrence |
Ordered | 28 March 1957 |
Builder | New York Shipbuilding Corporation |
Laid down | 27 October 1958 |
Launched | 27 February 1960 |
Acquired | 20 December 1961 |
Commissioned | 6 January 1962 |
Decommissioned | 30 March 1990 |
Reclassified | DDG-4, 23 April 1957 |
Stricken | 16 May 1990 |
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Motto | Don't give up the ship |
Fate | Scrapped, 28 October 2004 |
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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 |
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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 Lawrence (DD-954/DDG-4) was a Charles F. Adams class guided-missile destroyer in the United States Navy. It was the fifth ship named after Captain James Lawrence USN (1781–1813). The USS Lawrence served on blockade duty during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 and, in 1972, was part of Operation Linebacker in the west Pacific.