USS O'Bannon (DD-987)
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Awarded: | 15 January 1975 |
| Laid down: | 21 February 1977 |
| Launched: | 25 September 1978 |
| Commissioned: | 15 December 1979 |
| Decommissioned: | 19 August 2005 |
| Struck: | 19 August 2005 |
| Fate: | Held in reserve, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia, PA |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 9,494 tons full load |
| Length: | 529 ft (161 m) waterline; 563 ft (172 m) overall |
| Beam: | 55 ft (16.8 m) |
| Draft: | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines; 80,000 shp (60 MW); 2 × shafts. |
| Speed: | 32.5 knots (60 km/h) |
| Range: | 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h); 3,300 nautical miles (6,000 km) at 30 knots (56 km/h) |
| Complement: | 19 officers, 315 enlisted |
| Armament: | 2 × 5 in (127 mm) 54 caliber Mark 45 dual purpose guns; 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS Mark 15 guns; 1 × 8 cell NATO Sea Sparrow Mark 29 missile launcher; 2 × quadruple Harpoon missile canisters. |
| Aircraft: | 2 × SH-60B Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters. |
| Motto: | Discipline, Pride, Performance |
USS O'Bannon (DD-987), a Spruance-class destroyer, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon (1776–1850), an early hero of the US Marine Corps.
O'Bannon was laid down on 21 February 1977 by the Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Miss.; launched on 25 September 1978; and commissioned on 15 December 1979.
Originally scheduled to remain in service through 2010, decommissioning of the Spruance-class destroyers was accelerated as a cost saving measure, and by June of 2005 O'Bannon was the last Spruance destroyer in service in the Atlantic Fleet.
O'Bannon was decommissioned on 19 August 2005 and struck from the Naval Vessel Register the same day. She remains in the Reserve Fleet, as of 2006. As of being decommissioned She was scheduled to be trasfered to the Turkish Navy.
[edit] See also
- See USS O'Bannon for other ships of the same name.
- List of United States Navy destroyers
