USS Goldsborough DDG-20

Type:
Guided Missile Destroyer
Class:
Charles F. Adams (Class Overview)
Builder:
Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co.
Seattle, Washington
Hull Number:
DDG-20
Ordered:
March 25, 1960
Commissioned:
November 9, 1963
Keel Laid:
January 3, 1961
Decommissioned:
April 29, 1993
Launched:
December 15, 1961
Stricken:


April 29, 1993
Fate:
Sold to Australia Sept. 17, 1993 and used for spare parts. Sold by Australia to an Indian
Shipbreaker in Aug. 1994 towed to India 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 Rear Admiral Louis M. Goldsborough USN (1805-1877).
Christened by Mrs. Alan Bible.


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