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USS Richmond K Turner

US guided missile cruiser paying a visit to Rhodes in 1993. My wife Jean giving the scale measurement at the bow.
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USS Richmond K. Turner (DLG-20 / CG-20) was a Leahy-class cruiser destroyer leader in the United States Navy. The ship was named for Admiral Richmond K. Turner, who served during World War II.
The keel of Richmond K. Turner was laid on 9 January 1961 by New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden, New Jersey. She was one of nine Leahy-class "double-ended" guided missile destroyers.
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United States
History
Name:Richmond K. Turner
Namesake:Richmond K. Turner
Builder:New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden, New Jersey
Laid down:9 January 1961
Launched:6 April 1963
Sponsored by:Mrs. Claude V. Ricketts
Commissioned:13 June 1964
Decommissioned:31 March 1995
Reclassified:CG-20 on 30 June 1975
Struck:31 March 1995
Fate:Sunk as target 09 AUG 1998 near Puerto Rico
Badge:
Class and type:Leahy-class cruiser
Displacement:7,630 tonnage (full load)
Length:533 ft (162 m)
Beam:55 ft (17 m)
Draft:26 ft (7.9 m)
Propulsion:2 shaft; De Laval gear turbines; 4 Foster & Wheeler D Type 1,200 psi (8,300 kPa) boilers; 85,000 shp (63,000 kW)
Speed:34 kn (63 km/h; 39 mph)
Range:8,000 nmi (15,000 km) at 20 knots (20 mph; 40 km/h)
Complement:37 officers and 408 enlisted
Sensors and
processing systems:
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
Armament:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Richmond_K._Turner
 

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