USS Deyo (DD-989)
Career (US) | |
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Namesake: | Morton L. Deyo |
Ordered: | 15 January 1975 |
Builder: | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
Laid down: | 14 October 1977 |
Launched: | 20 January 1979 |
Acquired: | 25 February 1980 |
Commissioned: | 22 March 1980 |
Decommissioned: | 6 November 2003 |
Struck: | 6 April 2004 |
Fate: | sunk as a target, 25 August 2005 |
General characteristics | |
Class & type: | Spruance class destroyer |
Displacement: | 8,040 (long) tons full load |
Length: | 529 ft (161 m) waterline; 563 ft (172 m) overall |
Beam: | 55 ft (16.8 m) |
Draft: | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 80,000 shp (60 MW) |
Speed: | 32.5 knots (60 km/h) |
Range: | 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) 3,300 nautical miles (6,100 km; 3,800 mi) at 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
Complement: | 19 officers, 315 enlisted |
Sensors and processing systems: |
AN/SPS-40 air search radar AN/SPG-60 fire control radar AN/SPS-55 surface search radar AN/SPQ-9 gun fire control radar Mk 23 TAS automatic detection and tracking radar AN/SPS-65 Missile fire control radar AN/SQS-53 bow mounted Active sonar AN/SQR-19 TACTAS towed array Passive sonar |
Electronic warfare & decoys: |
• AN/SLQ-32 Electronic Warfare System • AN/SLQ-25 Nixie Torpedo Countermeasures • Mark 36 SRBOC Decoy Launching System • AN/SLQ-49 Inflatable Decoys |
Armament: |
2 x 5 in (127 mm) 54 calibre Mark 45 dual purpose guns |
Aircraft carried: | 2 x Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters. |
Motto: | Brave and Proud |
USS Deyo (DD-989), a Spruance-class destroyer, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Vice Admiral Morton L. Deyo (1887–1973), a veteran destroyerman and distinguished naval gunfire support task force commander of World War II.
Deyo was laid down on 14 October 1977 by Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Miss.; launched on 20 January 1979; and commissioned on 22 March 1980.