USS Sellers (DDG-11) |
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| Career (US) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Sellers (DDG-11) |
| Namesake: | David F. Sellers |
| Ordered: | 17 January 1958 |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works |
| Laid down: | 3 August 1959 |
| Launched: | 9 September 1960 |
| Acquired: | October 20, 1961 |
| Commissioned: | 28 October 1961 |
| Decommissioned: | 31 October 1989 |
| Struck: | 20 November 1992 |
| Fate: | sold on 25 July 1995, Disposed of by scrapping, dismantling September 15, 2004 |
| General characteristics | |
| 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) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × General Electric steam turbines providing 70,000 shp (52 MW); 2 shafts 4 x Babcock and Wilcox 1,275 psi (8,790 kPa) boilers |
| Speed: | 33 knots (61 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 354 (24 officers, 330 enlisted) |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
AN/SPS-39 3D air search radar AN/SPS-10 surface search radar AN/SPG-51 missile fire control radar AN/SPG-53 gunfire control radar AN/SQS-23 Sonar and the hull mounted SQQ-23 Pair Sonar for DDG-2 through 19 AN/SPS-40 Air Search Radar |
| Armament: | 1 Mark 11 launcher (DDG2-14) or Mark 13 single arm launcher (DDG-15-24) for Tartar SAM system or later the Standard SM-1 and Harpoon antiship missile 2x Mark 42 5in(127mm)/54 1x ASROC Launcher 6x 12.8in(324mm) ASW Torpedo Tubes (2xMark 32 Surface Vessel Torpedo Tubes) |
| Aircraft carried: | None |
| Motto: | Guardian of Freedom |
USS Sellers (DDG-11), named for Admiral David F. Sellers USN (1874-1949), was a Charles F. Adams-class guided missile armed destroyer in the United States Navy.
Sellers was laid down by the Bath Iron Works at Bath in Maine on 3 August 1959, launched on 9 September 1960 by Mrs. Hugh Scott and commissioned on 28 October 1961.
Sellers was decommissioned on 31 October 1989, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 20 November 1992 and sold on 25 July 1995.
As of 2005, no other U.S. Navy ship has been named Sellers.
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