USS Spruance (DD-963)

9100 standard tons

171.6 meters

16.8 meters

9.8 meters

30 officers, 350 sailors

Two propellers, each driven over 4 gas turbines; 80,000 shaft horsepower

33 knots

2 guns, 2 Harpoon starter, 1 Luftabwehraketen starter, 1 ASROC launcher, later replaced by 61 -cell VLS

The USS Spruance (DD -963 ) was a destroyer in the United States Navy and lead ship of the Spruance class. The ship was named after Admiral Raymond A. Spruance.

History

The Spruance was laid in 1972 at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Kiel in 1973 and ran from the stack. In 1975 the entry into service.

The first installation of the Spruance in 1979 and led the ship as an escort of the USS Saratoga (CV -60) into the Mediterranean. Later, the group sailed the Black Sea, to shade the Moskva River, which has just been completed. 1983 moved to the Spruance under the Iran -Iraq war, ten years later, the ship helped the U.S. embargo against Iraq. Followed in 1994 before the Haiti Operation Restore Democracy.

The last use of the USS John F. Kennedy (CV -67) side ended in December 2004, 2005 the destroyer was officially decommissioned and sunk in 2006 as a target practice.