USS Benjamin Stoddert (DDG-22)
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| Laid down: | 11 June 1962 |
| Launched: | 8 January 1963 |
| Commissioned: | 12 September 1964 |
| Decommissioned: | 20 December 1991 |
| Fate: | sank, 3 February 2001 |
| Struck: | 20 November 1992 |
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USS Benjamin Stoddert (DDG-22), named for Benjamin Stoddert (1751-1813), Secretary of the Navy from 1798 to 1801, was a Charles F. Adams class guided missile armed destroyer in the United States Navy.
She was laid down by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company at Seattle in Washington on 11 June 1962, launched on 8 January 1963 and commissioned on 12 September 1964.
- 27 years of history go here.
Benjamin Stoddert was decommissioned on 20 December 1991, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 20 November 1992, sold for scrap to International Shipbreaking, Incorporated, of Brownsville in Texas on 14 November 2000 but sank while under tow from Pearl Harbor on 3 February 2001.