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USS John Hancock (DD-981) - Definition |
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| Career
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| Awarded:
| 15 January 1974
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| Laid down:
| 16 January 1976
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| Launched:
| 29 October 1977
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| Commissioned:
| 10 March 1979
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| Decommissioned:
| 16 October 2000
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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement:
| 8,040 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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USS John Hancock (DD-981), a Spruance-class destroyer, was the second ship that name, and the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named for John Hancock (1737–1739), the President of the Continental Congress and first signer of the Declaration of Independence.
John Hancock was laid down on 16 January 1976 by Ingalls Shipbuilding, in Pascagoula, Miss.; launched on 29 October 1977; and commissioned on 10 March 1979.
On 16 October 2000, John Hancock was decommissioned. She remains in reserve at the NISMF, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
See USS John Hancock and USS Hancock for other ships named in honor of John Hancock.
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