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US Navy's Coontz-class guided missile destroyer USS “Preble” in the Indian Ocean, May 1981
Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
Displacements: 4,300 standard, 5,800 full load
Length overall: 156.2 m
Max. draft: 7.1 m
Engines: 2 x geared turbines, tptal 85,000 s.h.p.; twin-screw
Speed: 33 knots
Complement: 377
Laid down 16 December 1957
Commissioned 9 May 1960; originally classed as a guided missile frigate (DLG 15)
Reclassified 30 June 1975
Decommissioned 15 November 1991
Transferred to James River Reserve Fleet June 1993
Sold for scrapping 15 April 1994 at Wilmington, North Carolina; repossessed and resold on 10 February 1999 for scrapping at Brownsville, Texas; reposessed again & finally sold 20 March 2002 to shipbreakers at Philadelphia
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