Type:

Guided Missile Destroyer (Charles F Adams Class) built as DDG25 RAN Hull number - 38

Displacement:

4900 tones

Length:

133.2 meters (437 feet)

Beam:

14.3 meters (43 feet)

Speed:

Over 30 knots

Propulsion:

2 GE geared steam turbines, driving two shafts and producing 70000 shaft horse power

Laid Down:

21^st September 1962

Launched:

26^th September 1963

Armament:

2 x Mk42 Mod 10 5"/54 caliber single gun mounts
6 x Mk32 Mod 5 Torpedo tubes with Mk46 torpedoes
1 x Single Mk 13 Mod 5/6 missile launcher, with Harpoon & Standard (SM-1) missiles [originally Tartar]
and 2 Ikara missile launchers [now removed]

Surveillance:

975 Navigation Radar [now removed]
AN/SPS-67 (V)1 Surface Search Radar [originally AN/SPS-10]
AN/SPS-40C Long Range Air Warning Radar AN/SPS-52C 3-D Air Warning Radar
AN/SPG-53F Gunnery Fire Control Radar
2 x AN/SPG-51C/D Missile Fire Control Radar sets
IFF Interrogator (2) and Transponder
AN/SQS-23K/L Hull Mounted Sonar

Builders:

Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City MICHIGAN USA

Commissioned:

17 July 1965 at Boston, MASS USA

Crew:

333 (21 Officers - 312 Sailors)

Decommissioned:

Friday 15 October 1999