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| Career
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| Awarded:
| 15 January 1975
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| Laid down:
| 5 December 1977
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| Launched:
| 10 March 1979
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| Commissioned:
| 12 April 1980
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| Decommissioned:
| 24 July 1998
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| Struck:
| 24 July 1998
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| Fate:
| Sunk as a target, 29 July 2003
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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement:
| 8,875 tons full load
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| Length:
| 529 ft waterline; 563 ft overall (161, 172 m)
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| Beam:
| 55 ft (16.8 m)
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| Draft:
| 29 ft (8.8 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 nm (11,000 km) at 20 knots; 3,300 nm at 30 knots (56 km/h)
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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:
| Cognitus Eventu ("Known By The Results")
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USS Ingersoll (DD-990), a Spruance-class destroyer, was the second U.S. Navy ship to be named USS Ingersoll; in this case, in honor of Admiral Royal E. Ingersoll (1883–1976), who served as CINC, Atlantic Fleet during most of World War II.
Ingersoll was laid down on 5 December 1977 by Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Miss.; launched on 10 March 1979; and commissioned on 12 April 1980, Commander E. R.
Fickenscher III in command.
Ingersoll was decommissioned and stricken from the Navy list on 24 July 1998. She was sunk as a target on 29 July 2003.
See USS Ingersoll for other ships of the same name.
- UNCLAS //N03500//
- MSGID/GENADMIN/PACMISRANFAC/7332R//
- SUBJ/SINKEX REPORT FOR EX USS INGERSOLL//
- POC/RALPH CONWAY/GS-13/PMRF/-/TEL:DSN 471-6802/TEL:COMM 808-335-4802//
- RMKS/1. EX USS INGERSOLL WAS SUNK BY COMBINED ORDANCE AGM-65, AGM-84 BY VP-01, VP-47, VP-46, VP-62, VP-66, VP-92, AND VS-21 AT 15:07:53W 29JUL03.
- 2. THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS RECORDED:
- A. COORDINATES OF SUNKEN VESSEL: 23:02N 160:04W
- B. WATER DEPTH: 2,576 FATHOMS
- C. WATER TEMP: 80 DEG F
- D. DISTANCE FROM LAND: 62NM
- E. VESSEL DISPLACEMENT: 5770 TONS
- F. VESSEL LENGTH: 563 FEET
- G. EX-DD990 WAS STRUCK INITIALLY BY A SINGLE AGM-65 AMIDSHIP, THEN ENDURED 7 MORE AGM-84 DIRECT HITS BEFORE SUCCUMBING TO THE DEEP BLUE.//
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