USS Benjamin Stoddert DDG-22

Type:
Guided Missile Destroyer
Class:
Charles F. Adams (Class Overview)
Builder:
Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co.
Seattle, Washington
Hull Number:
DDG-22
Ordered:
March 25, 1960
Commissioned:
September 12, 1964
Keel Laid:
June 11, 1962
Decommissioned:
December 20, 1991
Launched:
January 8, 1963
Stricken:


November 20, 1992
Fate:
Sold Nov. 14, 2000 to International Shipbreakers, Brownsville, Texas but, sank en route from
Pearl Harbor to Brownsville on Feb. 3, 2001.


Dimensions, Machinery and Performance

Length:
437'
Engines:
2 General Electric geared steam turbines
Beam:
47'
Boilers:
4 Babcock & Wilcox 1,200 PSI (oil fired)
Draft:
20' 1" / 22' max.
Shafts:
2
Displacement:
3,277 std. / 4,526 full
SHP:
70,000
Speed:
33 knots
Crew:
330+
Range:
4,500 NM @ 20 knots / 6,000 NM @ 14 knots




Notes:
Named in honor of Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert (1751-1813).


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