USS John Young (DD-973)
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| Missing image USS_John_Young_DD-973.jpg USS John Young (DD-973) | |
| Career | 
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 17 February 1975 |
| Launched: | 6 January 1976 |
| Commissioned: | 20 May 1978 |
| Decommissioned: | 6 November 2002 |
| Fate: | Sunk as a target on 13 April 2004 |
| Struck: | 6 November 2002 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 8,040 tons full load. |
| Length: | 529 feet (161 m) waterline; 563 feet (172 m) overall. |
| Beam: | 55 feet (16.8 m) |
| Draught: | 29 feet (8.8 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines; 80,000 shp (60 MW); 2 x shafts. |
| Speed: | 32.5 knots (60 km/h) |
| Range: | 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h); 3,300 nautical miles (6,000 km/h) at 30 knots (56 km/h) |
| Complement: | 19 officers, 315 enlisted |
| Armament: | 2 x 5 inch (127 mm) 54 calibre Mark 45 dual purpose guns; 2 x 20 mm Phalanx CIWS Mark 15 guns; 1 x 8 cell NATO Sea Sparrow Mark 29 missile launcher; 2 x quadruple Harpoon missile canisters. |
| Aircraft: | 2 x SH-60B Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters. |
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USS John Young (DD-973), named for Captain John Young USN, was a Spruance-class destroyer of the United States Navy.
The ship was built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula in Mississippi.
Two computer games, U.S.S. John Young 1 and 2, published for the Commodore 64 in 1990 and 1992, were simulations of combat featuring the John Young.
Sunk on 13 April 2004 as part of Sinkex 2004 by a Mk-48 torpedo from USS Pasadena (SSN-752).
External Links
- united-states-navy.com: USS John Young (http://www.united-states-navy.com/dd/dd973.htm)
| Spruance-class destroyer |
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Spruance | Paul F. Foster | Kinkaid | Hewitt | Elliot | Arthur W. Radford | Peterson | Caron | David R. Ray | Oldendorf | John Young | Comte de Grasse | O'Brien | Merrill | Briscoe | Stump | Conolly | Moosbrugger | John Hancock | Nicholson | John Rodgers | Leftwich | Cushing | Harry W. Hill | O'Bannon | Thorn | Deyo | Ingersoll | Fife | Fletcher | Hayler |
| Kidd (Modified Spruance)-class destroyer |
| List of destroyers of the United States Navy List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy |