USS Conyngham (DDG-17)

USS Conyngham (DDG-17)
Career
Ordered:	21 July 1959
Laid down:	1 May 1961
Launched:	18 May 1962
Commissioned:	13 July 1963
Decommissioned:	30 October 1990
Fate:	sold for scrap, 15 April 1994
Struck:	30 May 1991
General Characteristics
Displacement:	4,500 tons
Length:	437 ft (133.2 m)
Beam:	47 ft (14.3 m)
Draft:	20 ft (6.1 m)
Propulsion:
Speed:	35 kts
Range:
Complement:	354 officers and enlisted
Armament:	1 twin Tartar, 1 single Tartar launcher, 2 5"/54 (127mm/54) dual purpose, 1 ASROC 8, 2 triple torpedo launchers
Aircraft:
Motto:

USS Conyngham (DDG-17), the third ship named for Captain Gustavus Conyngham USN (1744–1819), was a Charles F. Adams-class guided missile armed destroyer in the United States Navy.

Conyngham was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden in New Jersey on 1 May 1961, launched on 19 May 1962 by Mrs. Carl B. Albert, wife of Representative Albert of Oklahoma, House Majority Leader and commissioned on 13 June 1963, Commander Edwin P. Smith in command.

26 years of history go here

Conyngham suffered a severe fire in 1989 and the damage done sped her decommissioning.

USS Conyngham was decommissioned on 20 October 1990, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 31 May 1991 and sold for scrap on 15 April 1994.

See also

See USS Conyngham for other ships of this name.