History
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* Name: Charles F Adams (DDG-2)
* Namesake: Charles Francis Adams, III
* Ordered: 28 March 1957
* Builder: Bath Iron Works
* Laid down: 16 June 1958
* Launched: 8 September 1959
* Commissioned: 10 September 1960
* Decommissioned: 20 November 1992
* Struck: 20 November 1992
* Status: Museum hold, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
Class Characteristics
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* 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 x Babcock and Wilcox 1,275 psi (8,790 kPa) boilers
* Speed: 33 knots (61 km/h)
* Range: 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 Mark 11 launcher (DDG2-14) or Mark 13 single arm launcher (DDG-15-24) for Tartar SAM system or later the * Standard SM-1 and Harpoon antiship missile
* 2x Mark 42 5in(127mm)/54
* 1x ASROC Launcher
* 6x 12.8in(324mm) ASW Torpedo Tubes (2xMark 32 Surface Vessel Torpedo Tubes)
* Motto: "First in class, second to none."
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