USS Tattnall (DDG-19)
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USS Tatnall (DDG-19), named for Captain Josiah Tattnall USN (1794-1871), was a Charles F. Adams class guided missile armed destroyer laid down by Avondale Marine at Avondale in Louisiana on 14 November 1960, launched on 26 August 1961 by Mrs. Mary Adams Mason and commissioned on 13 April 1963. USS Tattnall was decommissioned on 18 January 1991, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 12 June 1993, sold for scrap on 15 April 1994 but the scrap contract was terminated on 1 October 1996 and she was sold to International Shipbreaking Limited at Brownsville in Texas on 10 February 1999.