USS John Rodgers (DD-983)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS John Rodgers.
USS John Rodgers (DD-983), a Spruance-class destroyer, was the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the three generations of the Rodgers family who served in the navy.
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USS John Rodgers on 7 March 1985 | |
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Name | John Rodgers |
Namesake | Three generations of the Rodgers family who served in the USN |
Ordered | 15 January 1974 |
Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
Laid down | 12 August 1976 |
Launched | 25 February 1978 |
Acquired | 25 June 1979 |
Commissioned | 14 July 1979 |
Decommissioned | 4 September 1998 |
Stricken | 4 September 1998 |
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Motto | Sea Eagle Triumphant |
Fate | Broken up in Brownsville Texas 30 December 2006 |
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Class and 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 (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph) |
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Complement | 19 officers, 315 enlisted |
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Aircraft carried | 2 × Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters. |
Aviation facilities | Flight deck and enclosed hangar for up to two medium-lift helicopters |
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John Rodgers was laid down on 12 August 1976 by Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi. The vessel was launched on 18 March 1978, sponsored by Mrs. Roy C. Smith, Jr., the great, great-granddaughter of Commodore John Rodgers, and commissioned on 14 July 1979.