USS Peterson (DD-969)

	; The Peterson at sea in 1990
Overview
Order	15th January 1971
Keel laying	April 29, 1974
Launch	June 21, 1975
Commissioning	July 9, 1977
Decommissioning	October 4, 2002
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 replaced by 61-cell VLS

The USS Peterson (DD-969) , named after Lieutenant Commander Carl Jerrold Peterson (1936–1968), was the seventh Spruance-class destroyer in the United States Navy .

history

Built by Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi , she was commissioned on July 9, 1977. It was taken out of service on October 4, 2002.

In 2004 the Navy used this ship as a target as part of a weapons test maneuver ("DD 21 Program Weapons Effects Test") and sank it.

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Overview
The Peterson at sea in 1990
Order	15th January 1971
Keel laying	April 29, 1974
Launch	June 21, 1975
1. Period of service
Commissioning	July 9, 1977
Decommissioning	October 4, 2002
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 replaced by 61-cell VLS