USS Cochrane DDG-21

Type:
Guided Missile Destroyer
Class:
Charles F. Adams (Class Overview)
Builder:
Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co.
Seattle, Washington
Hull Number:
DDG-21
Ordered:
March 25, 1960
Commissioned:
March 21, 1964
Keel Laid:
July 31, 1961
Decommissioned:
October 1, 1990
Launched:
July 18, 1962
Stricken:


November 20, 1992
Fate:
Sold Sept. 19, 2001 to International Shipbreakers, Brownsville, Texas and scrapped.


Dimensions, Machinery and Performance

Length:
437'
Engines:
2 General Electric geared steam turbines
Beam:
47'
Boilers:
4 Babcock & Wilcox 1,200 PSI (oil fired)
Draft:
20' 1" / 22' max.
Shafts:
2
Displacement:
3,277 std. / 4,526 full
SHP:
70,000
Speed:
33 knots
Crew:
330+
Range:
4,500 NM @ 20 knots / 6,000 NM @ 14 knots




Notes:
Named in honor of Vice Admiral Edward L. Cochrane USN (1892-1959).


Builder's Data
Page published Apr. 3, 2007