USS John King (DDG-3)

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USS John King (DDG-3)
USS John King (DDG-3)
Career United States Navy ensign
Ordered:
Laid down: 25 August 1958
Launched: 30 January 1960
Commissioned: 4 February 1961
Decommissioned: 30 March 1990
Fate: sold for scrap, 10 February 1999
Struck: 12 January 1993
General characteristics
Displacement: 4,500 tons Full Load
Length: 437 ft (133.2 m)
Beam: 47 ft (14.3 m)
Draft: 22 ft (6.7 m)
Propulsion: (2) Steam turbines powered by (4) Babcock & Wilcox Boilers operating at 1200PSI, turning twin screws.
Speed: 30+ kts
Range:
Complement: 354
Armament: 1 x Tartar guided missile launcher
2 x 5"/54 (127mm/54) (2x1)
1 x 8-tube ASROC launcher
6-12.75 inch (324 mm) torpedo tubes (2x3)
Aircraft: None
Motto: "Power for Peace"

USS John King (DDG-3) was a Charles F. Adams-class guided missile armed destroyer in the United States Navy named for Medal of Honor winner John King.

John King was laid down by the Bath Iron Works at Bath in Maine on 25 August 1958, launched on 30 January 1960 by Mrs. Paul J. Kilday, wife of Representative Kilday of Texas and commissioned on 4 February 1961. The John King was ordered as DD-953, reclassified as DDG-953 on August 16, 1956 and reclassified as DDG-3 on June 26, 1957.

John King participated in blockade duties during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962.

John King was decommissioned on 30 March 1990, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 12 January 1993 and sold for scrap on 10 February 1999.

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