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| Career
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| Awarded:
| 15 January 1974
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| Laid down:
| 12 August 1976
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| Launched:
| 18 March 1978
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| Commissioned:
| 4 September 1979
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| Decommissioned:
| 4 September 1998
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| Struck:
| 4 September 1998
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| Fate:
| Awaiting sale for scrap
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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement:
| 8,958 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:
| Sea Eagle Triumphant
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USS John Rodgers (DD-983), a Spruance-class destroyer, was the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the three generations of the Rodgers family who served in the Navy.
John Rodgers was laid down on 12 August 1976 by Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Miss.; launched on 18 March 1978; sponsored by Mrs. Roy C. Smith, Jr., the great, great-granddaughter of Commodore John Rodgers; and commissioned on 4 September 1979.
John Rodgers was decommissioned and stricken on 4 September 1998; she was stored at NISMF Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, awaiting sale for scrap.
See USS John Rodgers for other ships of the same name.
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