USS MacDonough DL-8 / DLG-8 / DDG-39

Type:
Destroyer
Class:
Farragut 1957 (Class Overview)
Builder:
Bethlehem Steel Company
Quincy, Massachusetts

Hull Number:
DL-8
DLG-8 (Nov. 14, 1956)
DDG-39 (June 30, 1975)

Ordered:
January 27, 1956
Commissioned:
November 4, 1961
Keel Laid:
April 15, 1958
Decommissioned:
October 23, 1992
Launched:
July 9, 1959
Stricken:
November 30, 1992
Fate:
Sold Oct. 21, 2003 to Metro Machine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and scrapped.




History
Christened by Mrs. Agnes MacDonough Wilson.


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