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Benjamin Stoddert underway, 1 February 1979
History
United States
Name
Benjamin Stoddert
Namesake
Benjamin Stoddert
Ordered
25 March 1960
Builder
Puget Sound Bridge and Dry Dock Company
Laid down
11 June 1962
Launched
8 January 1963
Commissioned
12 September 1964
Decommissioned
20 December 1991
Stricken
20 November 1992
Identification
Callsign: NHMC
Hull number: DDG-22
Motto
Post umbra lux
(After darkness, light)
Denique decus
(Honour at length)
Fate
Sank while under tow, 3 February 2001
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
4,500 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 Mk 11 missile launcher (DDG2-14) or 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 antiship missile
2 × 5"/54 caliber Mark 42 (127 mm) gun
1 × RUR-5 ASROC Launcher
6 × 12.8 in (324 mm) ASW Torpedo Tubes (2 × Mark 32 Surface Vessel Torpedo Tubes)
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