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Waddell 1986

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
DDG2	Charles F. Adams	335	Bath Iron Wks	15.6.1958	8.9.1959	10.9.1960	stricken 11.1992
DDG3	John King	336	Bath Iron Wks	25.8.1958	30.1.1960	4.2.1961	stricken 1.1993
DDG4	Lawrence	526	New York SB, Camden	27.10.1958	27.2.1960	6.1.1962	stricken 5.1990
DDG5	Biddle, 7.1964- Claude V. Ricketts	527	New York SB, Camden	18.5.1959	4.6.1960	5.5.1962	stricken 6.1990
DDG6	Barney	528	New York SB, Camden	10.8.1959	10.12.1960	11.8.1962	stricken 11.1992
DDG7	Henry B. Wilson	431	Defoe SB, Bay City	28.2.1958	22.4.1959	11.8.1960	stricken 1.1990
DDG8	Lynde McCormick	432	Defoe SB, Bay City	4.4.1958	28.7.1959	3.6.1961	stricken 11.1992
DDG9	Towers	18	Todd Pacific, Seattle	1.4.1958	23.4.1959	6.6.1961	stricken 10.1990
DDG10	Sampson	337	Bath Iron Wks	2.3.1959	21.5.1960	24.6.1961	stricken 11.1992
DDG11	Sellers	338	Bath Iron Wks	3.8.1959	9.9.1960	28.10.1961	stricken 11.1992
DDG12	Robison	433	Defoe SB, Bay City	28.4.1959	27.4.1960	9.12.1961	stricken 11.1992
DDG13	Hoel	434	Defoe SB, Bay City	3.8.1959	4.8.1960	16.6.1962	stricken 11.1992
DDG14	Buchanan	21	Todd Pacific, Seattle	23.4.1959	11.5.1960	7.2.1962	stricken 11.1992
DDG15	Berkeley	536	New York SB, Camden	29.8.1960	29.7.1961	15.12.1962	stricken 10.1992, to Greece (Θεμιστοκλῆς [Themistoklis])
DDG16	Joseph Strauss	537	New York SB, Camden	27.12.1960	9.12.1961	20.4.1963	stricken 1.1995, to Greece (Φορμίων [Formion])
DDG17	Conyngham	538	New York SB, Camden	1.5.1961	19.5.1962	13.6.1963	stricken 5.1991
DDG18	Semmes	958	Avondale Marine	15.8.1960	20.5.1961	10.12.1962	stricken 1.1995, to Greece (Κίμων [Kimon])
DDG19	Tattnall	959	Avondale Marine	14.11.1960	26.8.1961	13.4.1963	stricken 6.1993
DDG20	Goldsborough		Puget Sound N Yd, Bremerton	3.1.1961	15.12.1961	9.11.1963	stricken 4.1993
DDG21	Cochrane		Puget Sound N Yd, Bremerton	31.7.1961	18.7.1962	21.3.1963	stricken 11.1992
DDG22	Benjamin Stoddert		Puget Sound N Yd, Bremerton	11.6.1962	8.1.1963	12.9.1964	stricken 11.1992
DDG23	Richard E. Byrd	23	Todd Pacific, Seattle	12.4.1961	6.2.1962	7.3.1964	stricken 10.1992
DDG24	Waddell	24	Todd Pacific, Seattle	6.2.1962	26.2.1963	28.8.1964	stricken 1.1995, to Greece (Νέαρχος [Nearchos])

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	3277
Displacement full, t	4526
Length, m	128.0 wl 133.2 oa
Breadth, m	14.3
Draught, m	4.60
No of shafts	2
Machinery	DDG2, 3, 7, 8, 10 - 13, 20 - 22: 2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers DDG4 - 6, 9, 14, 23, 24: 2 sets Westinghouse geared steam turbines, 4 Foster Wheeler boilers DDG15 - 19: 2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Combustion Engineering boilers
Power, h. p.	70000
Max speed, kts	33
Fuel, t	oil 900
Endurance, nm(kts)	4500(20)
Armament	DDG2 - 14: 1 x 2 Tartar SAM (42 RIM-24), 1 x 8 ASROC ASuR (8 - 12 RUR-5), 2 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 42, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT DDG15 - 24: 1 x 1 Tartar SAM (40 RIM-24), 1 x 8 ASROC ASuR (8 - 12 RUR-5), 2 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 42, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT
Electronic equipment	DDG2 - 4, 8 - 14: SPS-37, SPS-39A, SPS-10F, 2x SPG-51, SPG-53A radars, SQS-23A sonar, WLR-1F, ULQ-6B ECM suites DDG5 - 7: SPS-29, SPS-39A, SPS-10F, 2x SPG-51, SPG-53A radars, SQS-23A sonar, WLR-1F, ULQ-6B ECM suites DDG15 - 18: SPS-40, SPS-39A, SPS-10F, 2x SPG-51, SPG-53A radars, SQS-23A sonar, WLR-1F, ULQ-6B ECM suites DDG19: SPS-40, SPS-39A, SPS-10F, 2x SPG-51, SPG-60 radars, SQS-23A sonar, WLR-1F, ULQ-6B ECM suites DDG20, 22: SPS-40, SPS-39A, SPS-10F, 2x SPG-51, SPG-60 radars, SQQ-23A sonar, WLR-1F, ULQ-6B ECM suites DDG21, 23, 24: SPS-40, SPS-39A, SPS-10F, 2x SPG-51, SPG-53A radars, SQQ-23A sonar, WLR-1F, ULQ-6B ECM suites
Complement	333 - 350

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Project history

These Tartar-armed missile destroyers were originally designed as modified versions of the Forrest Sherman: design requirement of the Tartar missile system was that it could replace a single 127mm mounting on a one-for-one basis. The twin 76mm/50 nearest the missile launcher was to be replaced by a replenishment-at-sea area for missile replacement, the other by a twin ASW weapon launcher (for the RAT system then in development), and there was to have been a quintuple nest of torpedo tubes between the stacks. However, RAT was abandoned in favour of ASROC, whose eight-round 'pepperbox' replaced the originally contemplated long torpedo tubes; these ships also received the usual launching system for lightweight ASW torpedoes. Quite soon it became evident that the new destroyer would have to be lengthened considerably to accommodate the new SQS-23 sonar and an enlarged CIC (for missile control), and to balance off increased displacement without a loss of speed.

There were several modifications during the construction of the class. FY59 and later ships (DDG15-24) had single- rather than twin-arm Tartar launchers for greater realibility. FY60 and FY61 units (FFG20-24) had bow-mounted sonars, a change evident from the bow location of their anchors. DDGF production terminated with the FY61 programme largely because of the promise of the Typhon programme then in prospect; DDGs contemplated for the FY66-67 programmes were not built.

Modernizations

1971-1973, Towers, Robison, Berkeley, Cochrane: + JPTDS CCS

1972-1973, Lawrence, Hoel: + 1 x 4 Sea Chaparral SAM (16 MIM-72)

late 1970s, Lawrence, Hoel: - 1 x 4 Sea Chaparral SAM (16 MIM-72)

late 1970s, John King, Barney, Henry B. Wilson, Sellers; early 1980s, Charles F. Adams, Lawrence, Claude V. Ricketts, Lynde McCormick, Towers, Sampson, Robison, Hoel, Buchanan: - 1 x 2 Tartar SAM (42 RIM-24); + 1 x 2 Harpoon SSM/Tartar SAM (6 RGM-84, 36 RIM-24)

late 1970s, Joseph Strauss, Goldsborough; early 1980s, Berkeley, Conyngham, Semmes, Tattnall, Cochrane, Benjamin Stoddert, Richard E. Byrd, Waddell: - 1 x 1 Tartar SAM (40 RIM-24); + 1 x 1 Harpoon SSM/Tartar SAM (4 RGM-84, 36 RIM-24)

1980s, all: - 1 x (1-2) Harpoon SSM/Tartar SAM ((4-6) RGM-84, 36 RIM-24), SPS-37, SPS-39A, 2x SPG-51 radars, WLR-1F, ULQ-6B ECM suites; + 1 x (1-2) Harpoon SSM/Standard SM-1MR SAM ((4-6) RGM-84, 36 RIM-66), SPS-40B/D, SPS-52B, 2x SPG-51C radars, SLQ-32 ECM suite, 4x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL

1982, Tattnall; 1984, Goldsborough; 1985, Benjamin Stoddert: received electronic equipment including SPS-52C, SPS-40D, SPS-10D, LN-66, 2x SPG-51D, SPG-60, SPQ-9A radars, SLQ-32(v)2, SLQ-20 ECM suites, 4x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL, NTDS CCS

Naval service

No significant events.