USS Spruance (DD-963)
| Career | |
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| Awarded: | 23 June 1970 |
| Laid down: | 27 November 1972 |
| Launched: | 10 November 1973 |
| Commissioned: | 20 September 1975 |
| Decommissioned: | 23 March 2005 |
| Fate: | transferred to reserve fleet |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 9,036 tons full load |
| Length: | 529 ft waterline; 563 ft overall (161, 172 m) |
| Beam: | 55 ft (16.8 m) |
| Draft: | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500–30 gas turbines; 80,000 shp (60 MW); 2 × shafts. |
| Speed: | 32.5 knots (60 km/h) |
| Range: | 6,000 nm (11,000 km) at 20 knots; 3,300 nm at 30 knots (56 km/h) |
| Complement: | 19 officers, 315 enlisted |
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| Aircraft: | 2 × SH-60B Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters. |
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| Motto: | Wisdom, Fortitude, Reason |
USS Spruance (DD-963) is the lead ship of the Spruance-class destroyers in the United States Navy. She was named for Admiral Raymond A. Spruance.
Spruance was built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula, Mississippi, and launched by Mrs. Raymond A. Spruance, Commander Raymond J. Harbrecht in command.
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Spruance served in the Atlantic Fleet, assigned to Destroyer Squadron 24 and operating out of NS Mayport, Florida.
She was decommissioned on 23 March 2005 and will be transferred to the inactive fleet in Philadelphia.
Ship's crest
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