| Career (Germany) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Rommel |
| Namesake: | Erwin Rommel |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine |
| Laid down: | 22 August 1967 |
| Launched: | 1 February 1969 |
| Commissioned: | 2 May 1970 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 September 1998 |
| Struck: | 30 June 1999 |
| Homeport: | Kiel |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 2004 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class and type: | Lütjens-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 4,460 t (4,390 long tons) |
| Length: | 134 m (440 ft) |
| Beam: | 14 m (46 ft) |
| Draft: | 6.4 m (21 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × high pressure superheated steam boilers 2 × turbines 70,000 PS (51,000 kW) |
| Speed: | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
| Complement: | 337 officers and men |
D187 Rommel was a guided missile destroyer of the Bundesmarine (West German Navy) and later the Deutsche Marine (Navy of reunited Germany). It was the third and last ship of the Lütjens class, a modification of the Charles F. Adams class.
Rommel was laid down August 22, 1967, by Bath Iron Works of Bath, Maine with the hull number DDG-30. On February 1, 1969, she was launched and baptised Rommel by Lucie Maria Rommel, widow of Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel. On May 2, 1970, she was commissioned into the 1. Zerstörergeschwader (first destroyer squadron), based in Kiel.
On September 30, 1998, she had to be decommissioned, because the operating licence for the boilers expired. She was then towed to Wilhelmshaven and cannibalised for spare parts for her two sisters, Lütjens and Mölders, which continued to serve for five more years. In 2004 she was finally scrapped in Turkey.
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