USS Macdonough (DDG-39)

USS Macdonough (DDG-39)
History
United States
Name:	Macdonough
Namesake:	Thomas Macdonough
Builder:	Fore River Shipyard, Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Laid down:	15 April 1958
Launched:	9 July 1959
Commissioned:	4 November 1961
Decommissioned:	23 October 1992
Struck:	30 November 1992
Fate:	Sold for scrapping
General characteristics
Class and type:	Farragut-class destroyer
Displacement:	5,800 tons
Length:	512.5 ft (156.2 m)
Beam:	52 ft (16 m)
Draft:	25 ft (7.6 m)
Propulsion:	4 x 1200psi boilers 2 x geared turbines
Speed:	33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Complement:	377 (21 officers + 356 enlisted)
Armament:	1 x Mk 42 5-inch (127 mm)/54 caliber gun Mk 46 torpedoes from two Mk-32 triple mounts 1 x Mk 16 ASROC missile launcher 1 x Mk 10 Mod 0 missile launcher for Standard Missile 2 x Mk 141 Harpoon missile launchers

USS Macdonough (DLG-8/DDG-39) was a Farragut-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Commodore Thomas Macdonough was the 4th ship of the United States Navy to be named for him.

The fourth Macdonough was projected as DL-8, but redesignated DLG-8 prior to keel laying by the Fore River Shipyard owned by Bethlehem Steel Co. in Quincy, Massachusetts on 16 April 1958. The ship was launched on 9 July 1959, sponsored by Mrs. Agnes Macdonough Wilson, great-granddaughter of Commodore Thomas Macdonough; and commissioned on 4 November 1961, Comdr. Wm. G. Hurley in command. She was initially rated as a guided missile frigate.

Having undergone an extended shakedown and training period, she reported to her home port at Charleston, South Carolina, 23 September 1962 and assumed duties as flagship for Commander, Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla 6, U.S. Atlantic Fleet. A month later she joined other units of the U.S. 2nd Fleet in enforcing the Cuban quarantine during the Cuban Missile Crisis, become part of Task Group 136.1 under Rear Admiral John Ailes, Commander, CruDesFlot 6. She remained with that force until it was dissolved on Thanksgiving Day, 22 November. The first 3 months of 1963 were spent firing missiles off the coast of Florida under the auspices of the Operational Test and Evaluation Force. She returned to Charleston in March and operated in the Charleston-Norfolk area until departing on her first U.S. 6th Fleet deployment 4 June.

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