USS Joseph Strauss (DDG-16)
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| Ordered: | July 21, 1959 |
| Keel laying: | December 27, 1960 |
| Launch: | December 9, 1961 |
| Commissioning: | April 20, 1963 |
| Decommissioning: | February 1, 1990 |
| Painted: | January 11, 1995 |
| Fate: | intended for scrapping |
| Technical specifications | |
| Displacement: | 4,500 tons |
| Length: | 133.2 m |
| Width: | 14.3 m |
| Draft: | 6.7 m |
| Drive: | 4 CE steam boilers 2 GE steam turbines with 70,000 shaft horsepower, two shafts |
| Speed: | 33 knots (61+ km / h) |
| Crew: | approx. 350 |
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The USS Joseph Strauss (DDG-16) was a destroyer of the Charles F. Adams-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy and later in the Greek navy . The ship is named after the US Admiral Joseph Strauss (1861–1948).
history
The Joseph Strauss was commissioned in 1959 and laid down at New York Shipbuilding at the end of 1960 . The destroyer was launched after a year of construction and was named after a Navy admiral.
In the first few years, beginning in 1964, the Joseph Strauss was relocated several times to Southeast Asia, where it granted air protection to several aircraft carriers during the Vietnam War . The destroyer was involved in the downing of two Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17s on June 17, 1965 , the first aerial victories by US forces since the Korean War in 1953.
In 1988 the ship took part in Operation Praying Mantis . The Joseph Strauss was in a combat group with the USS O'Brien (DD-975) and the USS Jack Williams (FFG-24) and was involved in the sinking of an Iranian warship.
In 1990 the Joseph Strauss was decommissioned and in 1995 she was finally deleted from the ship register. The ship was then sold to Greece and sailed there as a Formion until 2002 . Since then, the ship has been in Souda Bay , Crete , waiting to be dismantled.