USS Fletcher (DD-992)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Fletcher.
23.0172220°N 159.9858330°W / 23.0172220; -159.9858330
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USS Fletcher on 4 February 1988 | |
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Name | Fletcher |
Namesake | Frank Jack Fletcher |
Ordered | 15 January 1975 |
Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
Laid down | 24 April 1978 |
Launched | 16 June 1979 |
Acquired | 16 June 1980 |
Commissioned | 12 July 1980 |
Decommissioned | 1 October 2004 |
Stricken | 1 October 2004 |
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Nickname(s) | Fighting Jack |
Fate | Sunk as target, 16 July 2008 |
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Class and type | Spruance-class destroyer |
Displacement | 8,040 (long) tons full load |
Length | 529 ft (161 m) waterline; 563 ft (172 m) overall |
Beam | 55 ft (16.8 m) |
Draft | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
Propulsion | 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 80,000 shp (60 MW) |
Speed | 32.5 knots (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph) |
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Complement | 19 officers, 315 enlisted |
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Aircraft carried | 2 × Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters. |
Aviation facilities | Flight deck and enclosed hangar for up to two medium-lift helicopters |
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USS Fletcher (DD-992), the thirtieth Spruance-class destroyer, was part of the first major class of United States Navy surface ships to be powered by gas turbines. She was commissioned in July 1980 and was deployed mainly in the western and southern Pacific, but also voyaged to the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf. She was the second ship in the U.S. Navy to bear this name but the first to be named after Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher. After her decommissioning in 2004, she was sunk in a torpedo test exercise in 2008.