USS Sampson DDG-10

Type:
Guided Missile Destroyer
Class:
Charles F. Adams (Class Overview)
Builder:
Bath Iron Works
Bath, Maine
Hull Number:
DDG-10
Ordered:
January 17, 1958
Commissioned:
June 24, 1961
Keel Laid:
March 2, 1959
Decommissioned:
June 24, 1991
Launched:
May 21, 1960
Stricken:


November 20, 1992
Fate:
Sold Oct. 15, 2003 to Metro Machine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and scrapped.


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 Rear Admiral William T. Sampson USN (1840-1902).
Christened by Mrs. John S. Crenshaw.


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