USS Conyngham (DDG-17)
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| Career | 
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| Ordered: | 21 July 1959 |
| Laid down: | 1 May 1961 |
| Launched: | 18 May 1962 |
| Commissioned: | 13 July 1963 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 October 1990 |
| Fate: | sold for scrap, 15 April 1994 |
| Struck: | 30 May 1991 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 4,500 tons |
| Length: | 432 ft |
| Beam: | 47 ft |
| Draught: | 20 ft |
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| Speed: | 35 kts |
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| Complement: | 354 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 1 twin Tartar, 1 single Tartar launcher, 2 5"x54 dual purpose, 1 ASROC 8, 2 triple torpedo launchers |
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USS Conyngham (DDG-17), the third ship named for Captain Gustavus Conyngham USN (1744-1819), was a Charles F. Adams-class guided missile armed destroyer in the United States Navy.
Conyngham was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden in New Jersey on 1 May 1961, launched on 19 May 1962 by Mrs. Carl B. Albert, wife of Representative Albert of Oklahoma, House Majority Leader and commissioned on 13 June 1963, Commander Edwin P. Smith in command.
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USS Conyngham was decommissioned on 20 October 1990, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 31 May 1991 and sold for scrap on 15 April 1994.
See USS Conyngham for other ships of this name.