USS Benjamin Stoddert

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Benjamin Stoddert underway, 1 February 1979
History
United States
Name	Benjamin Stoddert
Namesake	Benjamin Stoddert
Ordered	25 March 1960
Builder	Puget Sound Bridge and Dry Dock Company
Laid down	11 June 1962
Launched	8 January 1963
Commissioned	12 September 1964
Decommissioned	20 December 1991
Stricken	20 November 1992
Identification	Callsign: NHMC Hull number: DDG-22
Motto	Post umbra lux (After darkness, light) Denique decus (Honour at length)
Fate	Sank while under tow, 3 February 2001
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 × Babcock & Wilcox 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"/54 caliber Mark 42 (127 mm) gun 1 × RUR-5 ASROC Launcher 6 × 12.8 in (324 mm) ASW Torpedo Tubes (2 × Mark 32 Surface Vessel Torpedo Tubes)

USS Benjamin Stoddert (DDG-22), named for Benjamin Stoddert (1751–1813), Secretary of the Navy from 1798 to 1801, was a Charles F. Adams-class guided missile armed destroyer in the United States Navy.