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|Ship image=[[Image:USS Conyngham DDG-17.jpg|300px]] |
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|Ship caption=USS ''Conyngham'' (DDG-17) |
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|Ship country=United States |
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|Ship flag={{USN flag|1990}} |
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|Ship name=''Conyngham'' (DDG-17) |
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|Ship namesake=[[Gustavus Conyngham]] |
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|Ship ordered=21 July 1959 |
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|Ship builder=[[New York Shipbuilding Corporation]], [[Camden, New Jersey]] |
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|Ship laid down=1 May 1961 |
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|Ship launched=18 May 1962 |
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|Ship acquired=1 July 1963 |
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|Ship commissioned=13 July 1963 |
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|Ship decommissioned=30 October 1990 |
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|Ship struck=30 May 1991 |
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|Ship motto=''Ready to Serve'' |
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|Ship fate=sold for scrap, 15 April 1994 |
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|Ship class={{Sclass|Charles F. Adams|destroyer}} |
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|Ship displacement=3,277 tons standard, 4,526 full load |
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|Ship length={{convert|437|ft|m|abbr=on}} |
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|Ship beam={{convert|47|ft|m|abbr=on}} |
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|Ship draught= |
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|Ship draft={{convert|15|ft|m|abbr=on}} |
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|Ship propulsion=*2 × [[General Electric]] steam turbines providing {{convert|70000|shp|MW|abbr=on}}; 2 shafts |
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*4 × [[Combustion Engineering]] {{convert|1275|psi|abbr=on}} boilers |
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|Ship speed={{convert|33|kn|km/h}} |
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|Ship range={{convert|4500|nmi|km}} at {{convert|20|kn|km/h}} |
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|Ship complement=354 (24 officers, 330 enlisted) |
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|Ship sensors=*AN/SPS-39 3D air search radar |
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*AN/SPS-10 surface search radar |
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*[[AN/SPG-51]] missile fire control radar |
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*AN/SPG-53 gunfire control radar |
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*AN/SQS-23 Sonar and the hull mounted SQQ-23 Pair Sonar for DDG-2 through 19 |
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*AN/SPS-40 Air Search Radar |
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|Ship armament=*1 [[Mk 11 missile launcher]] (DDG2-14) or [[Mk 13 missile launcher|Mk 13 single arm missile launcher]] (DDG-15-24) for [[RIM-24 Tartar]] [[Surface-to-air missile|SAM]] system, or later the [[RIM-66 Standard]] (SM-1) and [[Harpoon (missile)|Harpoon antiship missile]] |
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*2 × [[5"/54 caliber Mark 42 gun|5"/54 caliber Mark 42 (127 mm) gun]] |
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*1 × [[RUR-5 ASROC]] Launcher |
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*6 × 12.8 in (324 mm) ASW Torpedo Tubes (2 x [[Mark 32 Surface Vessel Torpedo Tubes]]) |
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'''USS ''Conyngham'' (DDG-17)''', the third ship named for Captain [[Gustavus Conyngham]] USN (1744–1819), was a [[Charles F. Adams class destroyer|''Charles F. Adams''-class]] guided missile armed [[destroyer]] in the [[United States Navy]]. |
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''Conyngham'' was laid down by the [[New York Shipbuilding Corporation]] at [[Camden, New Jersey|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.<ref>{{cite DANFS|url= http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/c13/conyngham-iii.htm |title= Conyngham III}}</ref> |
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== History == |
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''Conyngham'' was one of a few warships with shamrocks on her stacks ({{USS|Coral Sea|CV-43}}, {{USS|The Sullivans|DD-537}} and others for example).{{Citation needed|date=December 2007}} During her 27 years of commissioned service, ''Conyngham'' lived up to her motto, ''Ready to Serve''. Her presence exerted a powerful influence during times of crisis and helped maintain peace as a component of NATO seapower throughout the Cold War period. ''Conyngham'' made 15 Mediterranean deployments—three to the Persian Gulf, seven to Northern Europe, and 11 deployments to the Caribbean. She distinguished herself during crises in Cyprus (1964, 1974); provided air cover for planes evacuating Americans from an insurrection in Amman, Jordan (1970); took part in contingency operations during the Arab-Israeli Yom-Kippur War (1973); was the escort combatant during the evacuation of Americans from Beirut, Lebanon (1976); and conducted Black Sea Freedom of Navigation operations (1979).{{cn|date= November 2014|reason=whole paragraph uncited}} |
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During the 1980s, ''Conyngham'' continued to support United States foreign policy when she served off the coast of Libya (1982); was awarded the Navy Expeditionary Medal for providing naval gunfire support of Marines stationed in, and off the coast of, Beirut, Lebanon (1983) and monitored maritime traffic off the coast of Nicaragua (1983). She sailed with the {{USS|America|CV-66}} Battle Group in support of U. S. intervention forces in Grenada (1983). While deployed to the Caribbean in 1986, ''Conyngham'' was credited with four drug interdictions and was awarded the Coast Guard Meritorious Unit Commendation Medal.{{cn|date= November 2014|reason=whole paragraph uncited}} |
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''Conyngham'' continued superior performance as she escorted U. S. Flagged merchant shipping through the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq War in 1987 in [[Operation Earnest Will]]. During that deployment she sortied from Bahrain on short notice and provided assistance to {{USS|Stark|FFG-31}} after she was hit by two anti-ship missiles launched by an Iraqi F-1 Mirage. ''Conyngham'' was awarded the Navy Unit Commendation for her efforts in assisting the crippled ship. In 1988, ''Conyngham'' continue the ''Gus Can Do'' tradition during her deployments to the Fjords of Norway and Northern Europe.{{cn|date= November 2014|reason=whole paragraph uncited}} |
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A 16-year-old girl from [[Cork (city)|Cork]], [[Ireland]] stowed away aboard ''Conyngham'' in July 1988 during the 10-day return voyage to Norfolk. Four sailors pleaded guilty to assisting her with the highest sentence being 70 days in the brig for hiding an illegal alien and aiding entry to the United States.<ref name="convicted">{{cite news |url= http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1988/Sailors-Convicted-For-Helping-Stowaway/id-8d1c9825c5859fc9c51283278e699513 |title= Sailors Convicted For Helping Stowaway |newspaper= Associated Press |date= 1 December 1988 }}</ref> She was returned to Ireland<ref>{{cite news |url= http://articles.latimes.com/1988-07-29/news/mn-8139_1_irish-girl |title= Irish Lass Returned Home--in Custody of Two Navy Agents |author= United Press International |newspaper= Los Angeles Times |date= 29 July 1988 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/29/us/navy-ship-stowaway-is-sent-back-to-ireland.html |title= Navy Ship Stowaway Is Sent Back to Ireland |newspaper= The New York Times |date= 29 July 1988 |author= Associated Press }}</ref> at which point she reported she was held against her will, drugged and sexually abused while on board.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1988-09-14/news/0070040012_1_aboard-the-destroyer-twomey-navy-destroyer |title= STOWAWAY. An Irish teen-ager claims she was sexually abused |newspaper= Sentinel |location= Orlando, Florida |date= 14 September 1988}}</ref> No charges were filed with regard to claims of drugs and sexual abuse.<ref name="convicted" /> |
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''Conyngham'' completed her fifteenth Mediterranean deployment and received her fourth Battle Efficiency "E" in 1989 while part of the {{USS|Theodore Roosevelt|CVN-71}} battlegroup.{{cn|date= November 2014|reason=whole paragraph uncited}} |
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== Mainspace fire == |
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''Conyngham'' suffered a severe fire on 8 May 1990, while conducting pre-deployment operations off the Virginia coast. A major fuel oil fire erupted from the ship's Forward Fire Room into the ship's superstructure, isolating the crew forward and aft, requiring an all-hands effort to extinguish it. The ship had just completed a maintenance availability and a fuel oil strainer had not been assembled properly by a contractor and not inspected to verify assembly by ships company. The result was that the assembly failed catastrophically and started a fuel oil fire that raged for twenty-three hours, caused an officer to die, 18 other sailors to be injured and the ship to be decommissioned shortly thereafter. {{USS|Normandy|CG-60}} and {{USS|Briscoe|DD-977}} rendered assistance during the incident.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.dcfp.navy.mil/mc/museum/Conyngham/Conyngham1.htm |website= USN damage control museum |title= 8 May 1990 Class Bravo Fire in the #1 Fire Room |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20070614150720/http://dcfp.navy.mil/mc/museum/Conyngham/Conyngham1.htm |archivedate= 14 June 2007}}</ref> |
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== Fate == |
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''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. ''Conyngham'' was "broken up " in the Cape Fear River near Wilmington, North Carolina in 1995. |
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==References== |
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*{{NVR|{{NVR url|id=DDG17}}}} |
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==External links== |
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*[http://www.maritimequest.com/warship_directory/us_navy_pages/destroyers/pages/uss_conyngham_ddg17_page_1.htm MaritimeQuest USS Conyngham DDG-17 pages] |
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