Charles F. Adams-class

The USS Berkeley (DDG-15)

The Charles F. Admas-class guided missile destroyer is class of twenty-three destroyers that were in service between 1960 and 1992 as a follow on to the Forest Sherman-class destroyers.

Specifications

• Role: Guided Missile Destroyer
• Crew: 310-333
• Characteristics
  • Length: 437 feet (133.2 meters)
  • Beam: 47 feet (14.33 meters
  • Draught: 15 feet (4.572 meters)
  • Displacement: 3,277 tons (Standard); 4,526 (Full Load)
• Propulsion: 2 x steam turbines and 2 shafts providing 70,000 shp (52.22 MegaWatts); 4 x 1,275 psi (8,790 kPa) boilers
• Range: 4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h)
• Speed: 33 knots (61.12 kilometers/hour; 37.98 miles/hour)
• Sensor Suite
  • 1 x AN/SPS-10 surface search radar
  • 1 x AN/SPS-37 air search radar
  • 1 x AN/SPS-39 3D air search radar
  • 2 x AN/SPG-51 Tartar fire control radar
  • 1 x AN/SPG-53 gunfire control radar
  • 1 x AN/SQS-23 SONAR
• Armament
  • 2 x 5"/54-caliber Mark 42 naval guns
  • 1 x Mark 11 Guided Missile Launcher (equipped on DDG-2 through DDG-14)
  • 1 x Mark 13 Guided Missile Launcher (equipped on DDG-15 through DDG-24)
  • 1 x 8-cell Mark 16 Guided Missile Launcher (fires RUR-5 ASROC ASW Missiles)
  • 6 x 12.8 in (324 mm) ASW Torpedo Tubes
  • 2 x Mark 32 Surface Vessel Torpedo Tubes

Unit Run

Ship Name	Hull No.	Commission– Decommission	Fate	Notes
USS Charles F. Adams	DDG-2	1960–1990	Museum hold
USS John King	DDG-3	1961–1990	Scrapped
USS Lawrence	DDG-4	1962–1990	Scrapped
USS Claude V. Ricketts	DDG-5	1962–1989	Scrapped
USS Barney	DDG-6	1962–1990	Scrapped
USS Henry B. Wilson	DDG-7	1960–1989	sunk as target ship
USS Lynde McCormick	DDG-8	1961–1991	Sunk as target	[1]
USS Towers	DDG-9	1961–1990	Sunk as target	[2]
USS Sampson	DDG-10	1961–1991	Scrapped	[3]
USS Sellers	DDG-11	1961–1989	Scrapped	[4]
USS Robison	DDG-12	1961–1991	Scrapped	[5]
USS Hoel	DDG-13	1962–1990	Converted to power barge, then scrapped	[6]
USS Buchanan	DDG-14	1962–1991	Sunk as target	[7]
USS Berkeley	DDG-15	1962–1992	Sold to Greece as Themistocles (D-221), scrapped later	[8]
USS Joseph Strauss	DDG-16	1963–1990	Sold to Greece as Formion (D-220), scrapped later	[9]
USS Conyngham	DDG-17	1963–1990	Scrapped	[10]
USS Semmes	DDG-18	1962–1991	Sold to Greece as Kimon (D-218), scrapped later	[11]
USS Tattnall	DDG-19	1963–1991	Scrapped	[12]
Goldsborough	DDG-20	1963–1993	Sold to Australia as a parts hulk, scrapped later	[13]
USS Cochrane	DDG-21	1964–1990	Scrapped	[14]
USS Benjamin Stoddert	DDG-22	1964–1991	Sank while under tow enroute for scrapping	[15]
USS Richard E. Byrd	DDG-23	1964–1990	Sold to Greece for parts, sunk as target later	[16]
USS Waddell	DDG-24	1964–1992	Sold to Greece as Nearchos (D-219), sunk as target later	[17]