USS King (DDG-41)

For other ships with the same name, see USS King.

USS King (DLG-10) departing Pearl Harbor 19 August 1963
Career
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

• DDG-41 Personnel Roster at HullNumber.com

The prototype of the Phalanx was tested aboard USS KING (DDG 41) in 1973.