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|colspan="2"|[[Image:USS King (DLG-10).jpg|300px|USS King (DLG-10) departing Pearl Harbor [[19 August]] [[1963]]]] <br><small>USS King (DLG-10) departing Pearl Harbor [[19 August]] [[1963]]</small>
|colspan="2" align="center"|[[Image:USS King (DLG-10).jpg|300px|USS King (DLG-10) departing Pearl Harbor [[19 August]] [[1963]]]] <br><small>USS King (DLG-10) departing Pearl Harbor [[19 August]] [[1963]]</small>
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|Sold [[15 April]] [[1994]] and broken up for scrap By J&L Metals, Wilmington N.C. during 1995.
|Sold [[15 April]] [[1994]] and broken up for scrap By J&L Metals, Wilmington N.C. during 1995.
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In [[1982]], she won the [[Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award]] for the Atlantic Fleet.
In [[1982]], she won the [[Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award]] for the Atlantic Fleet.

See [[USS King|USS ''King'']] for other ships of this name.


==External links==
==External links==

Revision as of 04:49, 15 December 2007

For other ships with the same name, see USS King.
USS King (DLG-10) departing Pearl Harbor 19 August 1963
USS King (DLG-10) departing Pearl Harbor 19 August 1963
Career USN Jack
Ordered: 18 November 1955 Destroyer Leader DL-10
Reclassified: 14 November 1956 Guided Missile Frigate DLG -10
Laid down: 1 March 1957
Launched: 6 December 1958
Commissioned: 17 November 1960
Reclassified: 30 June 1975 Guided Missile Destroyer DDG -41
Decommissioned: 28 March 1991
Struck: 20 November 1992
Fate: Sold 15 April 1994 and broken up for scrap By J&L Metals, Wilmington N.C. during 1995.
General characteristics
Displacement: 5648 Tons (Full)
Length: 512' 6" (156.2 m) (oa)
Beam: 52' 4" (16 m)
Draught: 17' 9" (5.4 m) (Max)
Propulsion: 85,000 SHP; Geared Turbines, 2 screws
Speed: 33 Knots
Range: Range 5,000 NM@ 20 Knots
Complement: Crew 360
Armament: One Terrier Missile SAM System,


One ASROC ASW System,

Six 12.75" (324 mm) MK 32 ASW TT,

One 5"/54 Rapid Fire Gun (part of the Mk 68 GFCS),

Two twin 3"/50 guns (removed during AAW modernization, 1975),

Two Quadruple Harpoon Missile Launchers (added in 1985).

Aircraft:
Motto: Manu Tenere Mare Supremus

USS King (DL-10/DLG-10/DDG-41) was a Farragut-class guided missile destroyer leader. She was named for Fleet Admiral Ernest Joseph King USN (1878-1956),

King was laid down by the Bethlehem Puget Sound Navy Yard at Bremerton in Washington on 1 March 1957, launched on 6 December 1958 and commissioned on 17 November 1960.

King was reclassified as a Guided Missile Destroyer Leader on 14 November 1956 and designated DLG-10. King was again reclassified as a Guided Missile Destroyer on 30 June 1975 and designated DDG -41.

In 1982, she won the Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award for the Atlantic Fleet.

External links

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