USS Charles F Adams during her sea trial on 31 August 1960
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Charles F Adams |
Namesake | Charles Francis Adams III |
Ordered | 28 March 1957 |
Builder | Bath Iron Works |
Laid down | 16 June 1958 |
Launched | 8 September 1959 |
Commissioned | 10 September 1960 |
Decommissioned | 1 August 1990 |
Reclassified | DDG-2, 23 April 1957 |
Stricken | 1 August 1990 |
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Motto | First in class, second to none |
Fate | Scrapped, 2021 |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Charles F. Adams-class destroyer |
Displacement |
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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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Armament |
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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.