&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:USS_Dahlgren_(DDG-43)_underway_c1990.jpg) USS Dahlgren (DDG-43) underway, ca. 1990
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Dahlgren |
| Namesake | Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren |
| Ordered | 23 July 1956 |
| Builder | Philadelphia Naval Shipyard |
| Laid down | 1 March 1958 |
| Launched | 16 March 1960 |
| Acquired | 31 March 1961 |
| Commissioned | 8 April 1961 |
| Decommissioned | 31 July 1992 |
| Stricken | 20 November 1992 |
| Identification | DDG-43 |
| Fate | Disposed of by scrapping, 28 March 2006 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Farragut-class guided missile destroyer |
| Displacement | 5,800 long tons (5,900 metric tons) |
| Length | 512.5 ft (156.2 m) |
| Beam | 52 ft (16 m) |
| Draft | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
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| Speed | 36.5 knots (67.6 km/h; 42.0 mph) |
| Range | 4,500 nmi (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement | 377 (21 officers + 356 enlisted) |
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USS Dahlgren (DLG-12/DDG-43) was the 7th ship in the Farragut-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She was launched on 16 March 1960 by Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and sponsored by Mrs. Katharine D. Cromwell, granddaughter of Rear Admiral John Adolphus Dahlgren. She was commissioned on 8 April 1961. She was the third ship in the Navy to bear the name. Commissioned as DLG-12, Dahlgren was reclassified a guided missile destroyer on July 1, 1975 and given the new hull number DDG-43. The ship saw service until 1992, when she was placed in reserve. She was sold for scrapping three times, the first time in 1994, but was repossessed twice as the ship breaking companies failed. The ship was finally dismantled in 2006.