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This Website Was Developed Primarily For PlankOwners Of This Ship, But All Who Served On Her Are Welcome To Sign In The Guest Book And Use Our Message Board To Locate And Contact Fellow Shipmates. For What PlankOwner Can Forget Getting Her Ready For The First Time In The Summer In Pascagoula, MS. Her First Load On Of Stores, Ammunition or Rough Training At GITMO. By The Way, Where Is Our Plank ? Waqnt pictures posted, etc. E-mail me at msaved56@yahoo.com -Rick
SN Rick Graham
(See Bottom Of Page For Guest Book & Commissioning Book)
Home port:D & S Piers, norfolk, va.
class type: spruance class destroyer (963 Class)
Keel Laid: 4 april 1975
launched: 26 march 1976
christened: 5 may 1976
commissioned: 5 august 1978
Sponsor : Madame Valery Giscard d' Estaing
statistics
length: 563 ft. 4 in.
beam: 55 ft.
displacement: 7800 tons (At Time of commissioning)
Displacement 9,100 tons full load
Speed 33 knots
Power Plant 4 GE LM 2500 gas turbines, two shafts, 80,000 total shaft horsepower
Aircraft Two SH-60 LAMPS III helicopters
Decomissioned: june 5, 1998
welcome aboard
(Under Construction)
Found All My Commissioning Materials In Brand New Condition As I Had Stored Them Away (Thanks To Mom). Will Be Putting All Of The Book, Etc. On The Site. I know its been awhile. I'm starting to work on this site again. I built a new much faster machine 8 gig of Ram, 750 gig Seagate Barracuda Harddrive , duo coreCPU, etc. and bought a new scanner.I also now have high speed ISP - Rick
Will Also Put Knowm E-Mail Addresses Along With Name & Picture From Book.
January 12, 2001
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