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Charles F. Adams class destroyer
The Charles F. Adams class of guided missile destroyers was a group of twenty-nine built between 1958 and 1967. Twenty-three of these ships were built for the United States Navy, three for the Royal Australian Navy, and three for the West German Bundesmarine. The ships were based on the existing Forrest Sherman class, but were the first destroyers designed to serve as missile destroyers. The destroyers of this class served in the Cuban blockade of 1962 and the Vietnam War.
The United States Navy decommissioned its last Charles F. Adams destroyer, the USS Goldsborough, on April 29, 1993. The Australian and German navies had also decommissioned their last ships of this class by 2003. Four ships of this class were transferred to the Greek Navy in 1992. Three have since been decommissioned and the other, the HS Kimon , is the only Charles F. Adams-class ship still in active service. It is scheduled to be decommissioned in 2004.
The USS Charles F. Adams has been placed on inactive hold status and there are attempts by private groups to have it preserved as a museum ship. The USS Hoel has been sold to a private corporation which is attempting to use it as a power generating plant in Brazil. With the exception of these two ships and the Kimon, all of the ships in this class have been sunk as targets, sold for scrap, or are scheduled for one of the two fates.
Ships of the Charles F. Adams class:
- USS Charles F. Adams (DDG-2)
- USS John King (DDG-3)
- USS Lawrence (DDG-4)
- USS Claude V. Ricketts (DDG-5)
- USS Barney (DDG-6)
- USS Henry B. Wilson (DDG-7)
- USS Lynde McCormick (DDG-8)
- USS Towers (DDG-9)
- USS Sampson (DDG-10)
- USS Sellers (DDG-11)
- USS Robison (DDG-12)
- USS Hoel (DDG-13)
- USS Buchanan (DDG-14)
- USS Berkeley (DDG-15)
- USS Joseph Strauss (DDG-16)
- USS Conyngham (DDG-17)
- USS Semmes (DDG-18)
- USS Tattnall (DDG-19)
- USS Goldsborough (DDG-20)
- USS Cochrane (DDG-21)
- USS Benjamin Stoddert (DDG-22)
- USS Richard E. Byrd (DDG-23)
- USS Waddell (DDG-24)
- HS Kimon (D-218) (formerly USS Semmes)
- HS Nearchos (D-219) (formerly USS Waddell)
- HS Formion (D-220) (formerly USS Joseph Strauss)
- HS Themistocles (D-221) (formerly USS Berkeley)
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