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| Career
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| Ordered:
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| Laid down:
| 17 February 1975
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| Launched:
| 6 January 1976
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| Commissioned:
| 20 May 1978
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| Decommissioned:
| 6 November 2002
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| Fate:
| Sunk as a target on 13 April 2004
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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 (161 m) waterline; 563 feet (172 m) overall.
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| Beam:
| 55 feet (16.8 m)
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| Draught:
| 29 feet (8.8 m)
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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 (60 km/h)
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| Range:
| 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h); 3,300 nautical miles (6,000 km/h) 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:
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USS John Young (DD-973), named for Captain John Young USN, was a Spruance-class destroyer of the United States Navy.
The ship was built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula in Mississippi.
Two computer games, U.S.S. John Young 1 and 2, published for the Commodore 64 in 1990 and 1992, were simulations of combat featuring the John Young.
Sunk on 13 April 2004 as part of Sinkex 2004 by a Mk-48 torpedo from USS Pasadena (SSN 752).
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