USS Spruance (DD-963)
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| Career
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| Ordered:
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| Laid down:
| 27 November 1972
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| Launched:
| 10 November 1973
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| Commissioned:
| 20 September 1975
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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement:
| 8,040 tons full load.
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| Length:
| 529 feet waterline; 563 feet overall.
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| Beam:
| 55 feet.
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| Draught:
| 29 feet.
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| Propulsion:
| 4 x General Electric LM 2500 gas turbines; 80,000 shp (60 MW); 2 x shafts.
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| Speed:
| 32.5 knots (60 km/h)
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| Range:
| 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km) at 20 knots; 3,300 nautical miles at 30 knots (56 km/h)
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| Complement:
| 19 officers, 315 enlisted
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| Armament:
| 2 x 5 inch (127 mm) 54 calibre Mark 45 dual purpose guns; 2 x 20 mm Phalanx CIWS Mark 15 guns; 1 x 8 cell NATO Sea Sparrow Mark 29 missile launcher; 2 x quadruple Harpoon missile canisters.
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| Aircraft:
| 2 x SH-60B Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters.
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| Motto:
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USS Spruance, named for Admiral Raymond A. Spruance USN (1886-1969), is the lead ship of the Spruance class destroyers built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula in Mississippi and launched by Mrs. Raymond A. Spruance.
USS Spruance is an active unit of the United States Navy and operates out of Mayport in Florida.
| Spruance-class destroyer
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Spruance |
Paul F. Foster |
Kinkaid |
Hewitt |
Elliot |
Arthur W. Radford |
Peterson |
Caron |
David R. Ray |
Oldendorf |
John Young |
Comte de Grasse |
O'Brien |
Merrill |
Briscoe |
Stump |
Conolly |
Moosbrugger |
John Hancock |
Nicholson |
John Rodgers |
Leftwich |
Cushing |
Harry W. Hill |
O'Bannon |
Thorn |
Deyo |
Ingersoll |
Fife |
Fletcher |
Kidd |
Callaghan |
Scott |
Chandler |
Hayler
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List of destroyers of the United States Navy
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