USS Cochrane (DDG-21)
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USS Cochrane (DDG-21), named for Vice Admiral Edward Lull Cochrane, USN, was a Charles F. Adams class guided missile armed destroyer laid down by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company at Seattle in Washington on 31 July 1961, launched on 18 July 1962 and commissioned on 21 March 1963. USS Cochrane was decommissioned on 1 October 1990, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 20 November 1992 and sold for scrap to International Shipbreaking, Incorporated, of Brownsville in Texas on 14 November 2000.