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USS Nicholson (DD-982) - Definition and Overview |
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USS Nicholson (DD-982)
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| Career
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| Awarded:
| 15 January 1974
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| Laid down:
| 20 February 1976
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| Launched:
| 11 November 1977
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| Commissioned:
| 12 May 1979
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| Decommissioned:
| 18 December 2002
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| Struck:
| 6 April 2004
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| Fate:
| Sunk as a target, 30 July 2004
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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement:
| 9,184 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:
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USS Nicholson (DD-982), a Spruance-class destroyer, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for a family which was prominent in early American naval history, including James Nicholson, the senior Continental Navy Captain, and Samuel Nicholson, the first captain of USS Constitution.
Nicholson was laid down on 20 February 1976 by the Ingalls Shipbuilding, in Pascagoula, Miss.; launched on 11 November 1977; and commissioned on 12 May 1979.
Nicholson was decommissioned 18 December 2002; stricken 6 April 2004; and sunk as a target 30 July 2004.
See USS Nicholson for other ships of the same name.
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