USS Lynde McCormick
USS Lynde McCormick underway in 1974
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Name | Lynde McCormick |
Namesake | Lynde D. McCormick |
Ordered | 28 March 1957 |
Builder | Defoe Shipbuilding Company |
Laid down | 4 April 1958 |
Launched | 28 July 1959 |
Acquired | 29 May 1961 |
Commissioned | 3 June 1961 |
Decommissioned | 1 October 1991 |
Reclassified | DDG-8, 23 April 1957 |
Stricken | 20 November 1992 |
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Fate | Sunk as target, 14 February 2001 |
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Class and type | Charles F. Adams-class destroyer |
Displacement | 3,277 tons standard, 4,526 full load |
Length | 437 ft (133 m) |
Beam | 47 ft (14 m) |
Draft | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
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Speed | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
Range | 4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
Complement | 354 (24 officers, 330 enlisted) |
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USS Lynde McCormick (DD-958/DDG-8) was a
Construction and career
Lynde McCormick (DDG-8) was laid down 4 April 1958 by Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan; launched 28 July 1959; sponsored by Mrs. Lillian McCormick, wife of Admiral McCormick; and commissioned at Boston 3 June 1961.
Lynde McCormick departed Boston 23 August 1961 for her home port,
She arrived at
Vietnam War
A high state of readiness had been achieved when the Gulf of Tonkin incidents of 2 and 4 August escalated the Vietnam War.
In company with CruDesFlot 11, Lynde McCormick departed 5 August for a 6-month deployment along the Vietnamese coast, primarily in the screen for
After
She left San Diego on 1 March and 1-month later was shelling
Refresher training began on 15 May, and was interrupted on 27 May when she rushed to the aid of a stricken crewmember of the ship 88 Pacific Comet. Lynde McCormick continued operating out of San Diego until 17 August, at which time she departed for another WestPac deployment.
In October 1967 while shelling suspected North Vietnamese gun emplacements just north of the DMZ in company with the USS Newport News, Lynde McCormick was taken under fire by North Vietnamese artillery. She and the Newport News departed the area while shells splashed around them. Film footage of the Lynde McCormick was taken showing this event and was featured on Walter Cronkite's Evening News. In January 1968, Lynde McCormick was ordered to the coast off of Hue to provide gunfire support during the Tet offensive. She remained on station firing in support of American forces there for about two weeks until her barrels were completely spent.
In March 1968 she was ordered to the
In June 1982, Lynde McCormick fired .50 caliber rounds over Vietnamese boats after the boats had fired on USS Turner Joy (DD-951)during an incident reminiscent of the Gulf of Tonkin incident.[1]
1983 Deployment
On 20 July 1983 the
The battle group was composed of the carrier Ranger, battleship
.Operation Praying Mantis
In April 1988, the USS Lynde McCormick (DDG-8) was part of the largest combat action against another navy since WW-2. It was one of many ships of the
Decommissioning
The ship was decommissioned 1 October 1991 and was sunk as a target ship on 14 February 2001.
References
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.
- ^ "VIETNAMESE BOATS REPORTEDLY FIRE ON U.S. SHIP IN SOUTH CHINA SEA". The New York Times. 23 June 1982.