USS Robison DDG-12

Type:
Guided Missile Destroyer
Class:
Builder:
DeFoe Shipbuilding Company
Bay City, Michigan
Hull Number:
DDG-12
Ordered:
January 17, 1958
Commissioned:
December 9, 1961
Keel Laid:
April 28, 1959
Decommissioned:
October 1, 1991
Launched:
April 27, 1960
Stricken:
November 20, 1992
Fate:
Sold June 20, 1994 to Consolidated Minerals Leesburg, Florida for possible conversion
into a power barge by CMI Power International.
Last known to be moored at Charleston, South Carolina.


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 Admiral Samuel S. Robison USN (1867-1952).
Christened by Mrs. John H. Sides.


Builder's Data
Page published Mar. 11, 2007