DDG-5 Claude V. Rickets

Country:  United States

Class, [Type]: Charles F. Adams, [DDG].

Builder: New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Launch date: 14 June 1960.

Commission date: 05 May 1962.

Decommission date: 31 October 1989.

Displacement ( tons ): 3.277 standard, 4.526 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 133.2 x 14,3 x 4,6

Main machinery: 4 x Combustion Engineering boilers, 2 x turbines ( 70.000 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 33.

Range ( miles ): 4.500 at 20 knots.

Complement: 354 ( 24 officers ).

Guns: 2 x 127mm/54.

Torpedoes: 6 x 324mm tubes ( 2 triple x Mk 32 Mod. 5 launchers ) for Mk 46 Mod. 5 torpedoes.

Military lift: fuel: 950 tons.

Radar: Air search: Lockheed SPS-40, B-band, Hughes SPS-52, 3D, E/F-bands; Surface search: Raytheon SPS-67, G-band; Fire control: 2 x Raytheon SPG-51, G/I-bands (for missiles), Lockheed SPQ-9, I/J-bands, Lockheed SPG-60, I/J-bands.

Sonar: Atlas Elektronik DSQS-21B, hull mounted, active search and attack, medium frequency.

Countermeasures: Decoys: Loral Hycor Mk 36 SRBOC; ESM/ECM: AEG FL-1800S, Stage II, intercept and jammer.

Callsign: NDRO ()

Comment: Ex - Biddle.

Awards (as of 31/10/1989): 

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