Missing imageUSSPaulFFosterDD-964.jpg The USS Paul F. Foster in rough seas. |
| Career
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| Ordered:
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| Laid down:
| 6 February 1973
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| Launched:
| 22 February 1974
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| Commissioned:
| 21 February 1976
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| Decommissioned:
| 27 March 2003
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| Fate:
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| Struck:
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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement:
| 8,040 tons full load.
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| Length:
| 529 feet waterline; 563 feet overall.
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| Beam:
| 55 feet.
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| Draught:
| 29 feet.
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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; 3,300 nautical miles 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 Paul F. Foster, named for Vice Admiral Paul Frederick Foster USN (1889-1972), was a Spruance class destroyer built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula in Mississippi.
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