USS Lynde McCormick underway in 1974
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Name | Lynde McCormick |
Namesake | Lynde D. McCormick |
Ordered | 28 March 1957 |
Builder | Defoe Shipbuilding Company |
Laid down | 4 April 1958 |
Launched | 28 July 1959 |
Acquired | 29 May 1961 |
Commissioned | 3 June 1961 |
Decommissioned | 1 October 1991 |
Reclassified | DDG-8, 23 April 1957 |
Stricken | 20 November 1992 |
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Fate | Sunk as target, 14 February 2001 |
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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) |
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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 Lynde McCormick (DD-958/DDG-8) was a Charles F. Adams-class destroyer in the United States Navy.