USS Oldendorf (DD-972)
_port_bow_view.jpg) The Oldendorf in January 1984 |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Order | January 26, 1972 |
| Keel laying | December 27, 1974 |
| Launch | October 21, 1975 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | March 4th 1978 |
| Decommissioning | June 20, 2003 |
| Whereabouts | Sunk in 2005 as a target ship |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
8040 tons |
| length |
172 meters |
| width |
16.8 meters |
| Draft |
8.8 meters |
| crew |
19 officers, 315 sailors |
| drive |
2 propellers, driven by 4 gas turbines; 80,000 hp |
| speed |
32.5 knots |
| Armament |
2 × Mark 45 lightweight guns , 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS , 1 × RUR-5 ASROC (removed after conversion), 1 × RIM-7 Sea Sparrow , 2 × AGM-84 Harpoon , 2 × torpedo tubes with Mark-46- Lightweight torpedoes , after conversion 2 × Armored Box Launcher |
The USS Oldendorf (DDG-972) was a the Spruance-class destroyer belonging destroyer of the US Navy , which was made in March 1978 in service. The ship remained in active service until June 2003 and was then in the reserve fleet before it was sunk as a target ship on August 22, 2005 .
history
The Oldendorf was commissioned on January 26, 1972 as the tenth unit of the Spruance class and laid down on December 27, 1974 in the shipyard of Ingalls Shipbuilding . The ship was launched on October 21, 1975 and entered service on March 4, 1978. The destroyer was named in honor of Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf , who died a few months before the keel was laid.
The Oldendorf was stationed in San Diego , had to spend most of her first year of service in the shipyard of her builder Ingalls Shipbuilding due to improvement work. In the following years, the ship took part in training missions, including from May to November 1980 together with units of the Royal Australian Navy off the coast of Australia. Another mission took the destroyer as part of the aircraft carrier combat group of the USS Constellation (CV-64) in October 1981 in the Persian Gulf .
In August 1984, the Oldendorf was relocated to Yokosuka as part of the United States Seventh Fleet . She was a member of the USS Midway Carrier Combat Group (CV-41) until her relocation to San Diego in 1991 . In November 1986 the ship was together with the cruiser USS Reeves (CG-24) and the frigate USS Rentz (FFG-46) the first US unit since 1949 to call at a Chinese port ( Qingdao ).
During the Second Gulf War , the Oldendorf was again in the Persian Gulf in 1990 and 1991. In 1994 the ship was in service off Kuwait . In the following years the destroyer was part of other aircraft carrier combat groups: From 1995 for the USS Nimitz (CVN-68) and the USS Independence (CV-62) and in 1998 for the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) . Also in 1998 the Oldendorf took part in Operation Desert Fox .
In August 2000, returned Oldendorf one last time in the Persian Gulf when they locate a Airbus A320 of Gulf Air helped that crashed on August 23 with the loss of all 143 people on board into the sea.
On June 20, 2003 the ship was decommissioned after 25 years of service and transferred to the reserve fleet in Bremerton . After its deletion from the Naval Vessel Register on April 6, 2004, the destroyer was sunk on August 22, 2005 off the coast of Washington as a target ship by the USS Russell (DDG-59) .
Web links
- Entry on Oldendorf on navsource.org (English)
- Entry on Oldendorf on navysite.de (English)