German destroyer Mölders (D186)
Museum ship Mölders
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| Name: | Mölders |
| Namesake: | Werner Mölders |
| Ordered: | 3 March 1965 |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine |
| Laid down: | 12 April 1966 |
| Launched: | 13 April 1967 |
| Commissioned: | 23 February 1969 |
| Decommissioned: | 28 May 2003 |
| Status: | Museum ship at Wilhelmshaven |
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| Class and type: | Lütjens-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 4,800 t (4,724 long tons) standard |
| Length: | 134 m (439 ft 8 in) |
| Beam: | 14.5 m (47 ft 7 in) |
| Draught: | 6.5 m (21 ft 4 in) |
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| Speed: | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
| Complement: | 334 |
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D186 Mölders was one of three Lütjens-class guided-missile destroyers, a modified version of the American Charles F. Adams class, built for the Bundesmarine (West German Navy) during the 1960s.
The Charles F. Adams class was based on a stretched Forrest Sherman-class destroyer hull modified to accommodate an RUR-5 ASROC Launcher and all their associated equipment. The ships had an overall length of 134.4 meters (440 ft 11 in), a beam of 14.4 meters (47 ft 3 in) and a deep draft of 4.5 meters (14 ft 9 in). They displaced 4,526 metric tons (4,455 long tons) at full load. Their crew consisted of 333 officers and enlisted men.
The ships were equipped with two geared General Electric steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by four D-V2M water-tube boilers. The turbines were intended to produce 70,000 shaft horsepower (52,000 kW) to reach the designed speed of 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph). The Lütjens class had a range of 4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at a speed of 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph). Unlike their half-sisters, the ships had two macks.
They were armed with two 5"/54 caliber Mark 42 gun forward, one each forward and aft of the superstructure. The ships were fitted with an eight-round ASROC launcher between the funnels. Close-range anti-submarine defense was provided by two triple sets of 324-millimetre (12.75 in) Mk 32 torpedo tubes. The primary armament of the ships was the Tartar surface-to-air missile designed to defend the carrier battle group. They were fired via the single-arm Mk 13 missile launcher and the ships stowed a total of 40 missiles for the launcher.
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