USS John King
Charles F. Adams-class destroyer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS John King (DD-953/DDG-3) was a Charles F. Adams-class guided missile armed destroyer in the United States Navy named for Medal of Honor recipient John King.
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USS John King underway in 1983 | |
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Name | John King |
Namesake | John King |
Ordered | 28 March 1957 |
Builder | Bath Iron Works |
Laid down | 25 August 1958 |
Launched | 30 January 1960 |
Acquired | 27 January 1961 |
Commissioned | 4 February 1961 |
Decommissioned | 30 March 1990 |
Reclassified | DDG-3, 23 April 1957 |
Stricken | 12 January 1993 |
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Motto | Power for Peace |
Fate | Scrapped, 10 February 1999 |
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 |
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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) |
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Armament |
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Aircraft carried | None |
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John King was laid down by the Bath Iron Works at Bath in Maine on 25 August 1958, launched on 30 January 1960 by Mrs. Paul J. Kilday, wife of Representative Kilday of Texas and commissioned on 4 February 1961; Comdr. Albert M. Sackett in command. John King was ordered as DD-953, reclassified as DDG-3 on 16 August 1956 and reclassified as DDG-3 on 26 June 1957. John King participated in blockade duties during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962.[1]