USS Lynde McCormick DDG-8

Type:
Guided Missile Destroyer
Class:
Charles F. Adams (Class Overview)
Builder:
DeFoe Shipbuilding Company
Bay City, Michigan
Hull Number:
DDG-8 (a)
Ordered:
March 28, 1957
Commissioned:
June 3, 1961
Keel Laid:
April 4, 1958
Decommissioned:
October 10, 1991
Launched:
July 28, 1959
Stricken:


November 20, 1992
Fate:
Sold June 20, 1994 to Consolidated Power and Minerals for conversion into a floating power plant.
Returned to US Navy custody on Mar. 23, 1999.
Sunk as target Feb. 24, 2001 off California.
Notes:
(a):
Ordered as DD-958, reclassified as DDG-958 on Aug. 16, 1956,
reclassified as DDG-8 on June 26, 1957.


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 Admiral Lynde D. McCormick USN (1895-1956).
Christened by Mrs. Lillian McCormick.


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