USS Mahan (DDG-42)

USS Mahan (DDG-42)
History
United States
Name:	Mahan
Namesake:	Alfred Thayer Mahan
Ordered:	18 November 1955
Builder:	San Francisco Naval Shipyard
Laid down:	31 July 1957
Launched:	7 October 1959
Acquired:	31 December 1960
Commissioned:	25 December 1960
Decommissioned:	15 June 1993
Struck:	15 June 1993
Identification:	DDG-42
Fate:	Disposed of by scrapping 18 May 2004
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General characteristics
Class and type:	Farragut-class guided missile 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 geared turbines
Speed:	36.5 knots (67.6 km/h; 42.0 mph)
Range:	4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement:	377 (21 officers + 356 enlisted)
Sensors and processing systems:	AN/SPS-48D air-search radar AN/SPS-49 air-search radar AN/SPG-55B fire control radar AN/SPG-53F gun fire control radar
Electronic warfare & decoys:	AN/SLQ-32
Armament:	1 x Mk 42 5-inch/54 (127 mm/54) caliber gun Mark 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 (ER) Missiles 2 x Mk 141 Harpoon missile launchers

USS Mahan (DDG-42), was a Farragut-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan USN (1840–1914). The ship was Laid down as DLG-11 by the San Francisco Naval Shipyard on 31 July 1957 and launched on 7 October 1959. Mahan was sponsored by Mrs. H. P. Smith, wife of Vice Adm. Harold Page Smith, and commissioned on 25 December 1960. Mahan was reclassified as a guided missile destroyer on 30 June 1975 and designated DDG-42. USS Mahan was decommissioned on 15 June 1993 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on the same day.

During the first year and a half of her commissioned service, Mahan’s primary assignment was the testing and evaluation of her weapons systems, RUR-5 ASROC and RIM-2 Terriers. A unit of the Pacific Fleet’s Cruiser Destroyer Force, she operated out of San Diego, participating in local and fleet exercises off the west coast and in Hawaiian waters. Leaving San Diego on 6 June 1962, she commenced her first western Pacific deployment. For the next 6 months she cruised with other units of the 7th Fleet, taking part in antisubmarine, antiaircraft, and amphibious exercises as well as making good-will calls on ports in the Far East. Included in these latter visits was a stop at Saigon from 24 to 28 October for the Republic of Vietnam’s Independence anniversary celebrations.