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| Career
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| Ordered:
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| Laid down:
| 23 September 1974
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| Launched:
| 24 August 1975
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| Commissioned:
| 19 November 1977
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| Decommissioned:
| 28 February 2002
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| Fate:
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| Struck:
| 6 November 2002
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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
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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:
| Determined, Ready, Resourceful
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USS David R. Ray, named for Hospital Corpsman Second Class David Robert Ray (1945-1969), assigned to Battery D of the Second Battalion, Eleventh Marines, 1st Marine Division, killed in action at Phu Loc 6, near An Hoa, in Quang Nam Province in the Republic of Vietnam on 19 March 1969 and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, was a Spruance class destroyer built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula in Mississippi.
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