USS Tattnall DDG-19

Type:
Guided Missile Destroyer
Class:
Charles F. Adams (Class Overview)
Builder:
Avondale Marine Ways Inc.
Avondale, Louisiana
Hull Number:
DDG-19
Ordered:
July 21, 1959
Commissioned:
April 13, 1963
Keel Laid:
November 14, 1960
Decommissioned:
January 18, 1991
Launched:
August 26, 1961
Stricken:


January 12, 1993
Fate:
Sold Feb. 10, 1999 to International Shipbreakers, Brownsville, Texas and scrapped.


Dimensions, Machinery and Performance

Length:
437'
Engines:
2 General Electric geared steam turbines
Beam:
47'
Boilers:
4 Combustion Engineering 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 Captain Josiah Tattnell CSN (1795-1871).
Christened by Mrs. Mary Adams Mason.


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