USS Charles F. Adams

USS Charles F Adams during her sea trial on 31 August 1960
History
United States
NameCharles F Adams
NamesakeCharles Francis Adams III
Ordered28 March 1957
BuilderBath Iron Works
Laid down16 June 1958
Launched8 September 1959
Commissioned10 September 1960
Decommissioned1 August 1990
ReclassifiedDDG-2, 23 April 1957
Stricken1 August 1990
Identification
MottoFirst in class, second to none
FateScrapped, 2021
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General characteristics
Class and typeCharles F. Adams-class destroyer
Displacement
  • 3,277 tons standard
  • 4,526 full load
Length437 ft (133 m)
Beam47 ft (14 m)
Draft15 ft (4.6 m)
Propulsion
Speed33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Range4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h)
Complement354 (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

USS Charles F. Adams (DD-952/DDG-2), named for Charles Francis Adams III (Secretary of the Navy from 1929 to 1933), was the lead ship of her class of guided missile destroyers of the United States Navy. Commissioned in 1960, during her 30-year operational history she participated in the recovery operation for the Mercury 8 space mission, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, as well as operations in the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea. Decommissioned in 1990, attempts to save her as a museum ship failed and she was scrapped in 2021.