USS Leftwich (DD-984)
_underway_in_the_Pacific_Ocean_on_16_December_1988_(6483090).jpg) The Leftwich 1988 at sea |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Order | 15th January 1974 |
| Keel laying | November 12, 1976 |
| Launch | April 8, 1978 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | August 25, 1979 |
| Decommissioning | March 27, 1998 |
| Whereabouts | sunk as a target ship |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
9100 standard tons |
| length |
171.6 meters |
| width |
16.8 meters |
| Draft |
9.8 meters |
| crew |
30 officers, 350 sailors |
| drive |
2 propellers, driven by 4 gas turbines; 80,000 wave horsepower |
| speed |
33 knots |
| Armament |
2 × Mark 45 lightweight guns , 2 x 20 mm Phalanx CIWS , 2 x Harpoon starters , 1 anti-aircraft missile starter, 2 torpedo tubes 324mm, 1 ASROC starter, later supplemented by 2 ABL |
The USS Leftwich (DD-984) was a destroyer of the Spruance-class destroyer .
history
The Leftwich's keel was laid on November 12, 1976 at Ingalls Shipbuilding . The destroyer was launched in 1978 and entered service with the United States Navy in 1979 .
On November 29, 1982, the Leftwich collided with the emerging submarine USS Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610) during a training exercise near United States Naval Base Subic Bay . Both ships were damaged while the Leftwich was being repaired, the Edison was decommissioned unrepaired two months later.
From 1985 the Leftwich was stationed in Pearl Harbor , which remained her home port for the rest of her service life.
During the Iran-Iraq war she served in the Persian Gulf, and in Operation Nimble Archer , she shot at in retaliation for Iranian attacks on tanker oil platforms in the Gulf. She was later involved in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm , during which she attacked Iraq with cruise missiles . In addition, the Leftwich later helped enforce the embargoes on Iraq by participating in searches of cargo ships. Leftwich moved a total of eight times during their service. In March 1998 the destroyer was decommissioned and sunk on August 1, 2003 in the Pacific (coordinate 22 ° 48 '46 "N, 160 ° 33' 59" W) as a target ship.
Web links
- navysite.de: USS Leftwich (engl.)
- [1] Sinking of the USS Leftwich