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USS Caron (DD-970) - Definition |
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| Career
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| Ordered:
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| Laid down:
| 1 July 1974
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| Launched:
| 23 June 1975
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| Commissioned:
| 1 October 1977
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| Decommissioned:
| 15 October 2001
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| Fate:
| Accidentally sunk in the Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training Area on 4 December 2002.
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| Struck:
| 15 October 2001
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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement:
| 8,040 tons full load.
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| Length:
| 529 feet waterline; 563 feet overall.
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| Beam:
| 55 feet.
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| Draught:
| 29 feet.
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| Propulsion:
| 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines; 80,000 shp (60 MW); 2 x shafts.
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| Speed:
| 32.5 knots (60 km/h)
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| Range:
| 6,000 nautical miles at 20 knots; 3,300 nautical miles at 30 knots (56 km/h).
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| Complement:
| 19 officers, 315 enlisted
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| Armament:
| 2 x 5 inch (127 mm) 54 calibre Mark 45 dual purpose guns; 2 x 20 mm Phalanx CIWS Mark 15 guns; 1 x 8 cell NATO Sea Sparrow Mark 29 missile launcher; 2 x quadruple Harpoon missile canisters.
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| Aircraft:
| 2 x SH-60B Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters.
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| Motto:
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USS Caron, named for Hospital Corpsman Third Class Wayne Maurice Caron (1946-1968), assigned to Headquarters and Service Company, Third Battalion, Seventh Marines, First Marine Division, killed in action at Quang Nam Province in the Republic of Vietnam on 28 July 1968, and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, was a Spruance class destroyer laid down by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula in Mississippi.
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