USS Goldsborough off Bahrain in 1986
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Goldsborough |
Namesake | Louis M. Goldsborough |
Ordered | 25 March 1960 |
Builder | Puget Sound Bridge and Drydock Company |
Laid down | 3 January 1961 |
Launched | 15 December 1961 |
Commissioned | 9 November 1963 |
Decommissioned | 29 April 1993 |
Stricken | 29 April 1993 |
Identification |
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Fate | Sold to Australia for parts and scrapped |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Charles F. Adams-class destroyer |
Displacement | |
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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Aircraft carried | None |
USS Goldsborough (DDG-20) was a Charles F. Adams–class guided missile-armed destroyer. It was named for Rear Admiral Louis M. Goldsborough USN (1805–1877).