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| Career
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| Ordered:
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| Laid down:
| 15 October 1973
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| Launched:
| 19 December 1974
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| Commissioned:
| 22 January 1977
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| Decommissioned:
| 2 December 2003
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| Fate:
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| Struck:
| 6 April 2004
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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement:
| 8,040 tons full load
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| Length:
| 529 feet waterline (161 m);
563 feet overall (172 m)
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| Beam:
| 55 feet (17 m)
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| Draft:
| 29 feet (9 m)
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| Propulsion:
| 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines; 80,000 shp (60 MW);
2 × shafts.
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| Speed:
| 32.5 knots (60 km/h)
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| Range:
| 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km) at 20 knots;
3,300 nautical miles at 30 knots
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| Complement:
| 19 officers, 315 enlisted
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| Armament:
| 2 × 5 inch (127 mm) 54 calibre 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.
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| Aircraft:
| 2 × SH-60B Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters.
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| Motto:
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USS Elliot (DD-967) was a Spruance-class destroyer in the United States Navy. Built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula, Mississippi, the ship was named for Lieutenant Commander Arthur James Elliot USN (1933–1968), who as commanding officer of Patrol Boat River Squadron 57, was killed in action in the Republic of Vietnam on 29 December 1968.
USS Elliot was an active unit of the United States Navy and operated out of San Diego in California until it was decommissioned on December 2, 2003.
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