USS Semmes (DDG-18)

USS Semmes at Charleston in 1988
History
United States
Name	Semmes
Namesake	Raphael Semmes
Ordered	21 July 1959
Builder	Avondale Marine Ways, Inc.
Laid down	15 August 1960
Launched	20 May 1961
Acquired	30 November 1962
Commissioned	10 December 1962
Decommissioned	14 April 1991
Stricken	14 April 1991
Identification	Callsign: NGMV Hull number: DDG-18
Motto	Dare to Excel
Fate	Sold to Greece, 13 September 1991
Badge
Greece
Name	Kimon
Namesake	Kimon
Commissioned	13 September 1991
Decommissioned	17 June 2004
Identification	Hull number: D218
Fate	Scrapped, Fall 2006
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 × Combustion Engineering 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 x 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 anti-ship missile 2 × 5 in (127 mm)/54 caliber Mark 42 gun 1 × RUR-5 ASROC launcher 4 × 12.8 in (325 mm) ASW torpedo tubes 2 x Mk 32 surface vessel torpedo tubes

USS Semmes (DDG-18), was the second Navy ship named for Commander (USN), Rear Admiral (CSN), Brigadier General (CSA) Raphael Semmes (1809–1877). Semmes was a Charles F. Adams-class guided-missile destroyer of the United States Navy. Entering service in 1962, Semmes spent most of her career in the Atlantic and Mediterranean theaters. Decommissioned in 1991, Semmes was transferred to the Hellenic Navy and renamed Kimon. The destroyer was decommissioned for the final time in 2004 and sold for scrap in 2006.