Description:Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: USS Benjamin Stoddert, USS Tattnall, USS Berkeley, USS Towers, USS Barney, USS Joseph Strauss, USS Waddell, USS Robison, USS Richard E. Byrd, USS Sampson, USS Semmes, USS Hoel, USS Lynde McCormick, USS John King, USS Conyngham, USS Lawrence, USS Claude V. Ricketts, USS Goldsborough, USS Charles F. Adams, USS Buchanan, USS Cochrane, USS Henry B. Wilson, USS Sellers. Excerpt: USS Benjamin Stoddert (DDG-22), named for Benjamin Stoddert (1751-1813), Secretary of the Navy from 1798 to 1801, was a Charles F. Adams-class guided missile armed destroyer in the United States Navy. She was laid down by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company at Seattle in Washington on 11 June 1962, launched on 8 January 1963; sponsored by Mrs. Nancee Ravenel, a great, great, great, granddaughter of the Honorable Benjamin Stoddert; and commissioned at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on 12 September 1964; Commander Walter Megginness in command. Over the next six weeks, Benjamin Stoddert fitted out at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, preparing for a series of weapon, sensor, and communication system tests. The guided-missile destroyer departed Bremerton for the first time on 7 November and, after brief stops at San Francisco and San Diego, arrived at Pearl Harbor to commence acceptance trials. Since she was primarily designed to provide long-range antiaircraft cover for task forces at sea, Benjamin Stoddert conducted a two-month evaluation of her TARTAR antiaircraft missile system, concluding with a test firing off Kauai, Hawaii, in early February 1965. Other tests - including gunnery, torpedo, and engineering exercises - helped the crew tie her antisubmarine, antiair, and communications gear into a single integrated system. In May, the warship entered the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard for a two-month maintenance period. In July, Benjamin Stodde...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Charles F. Adams Class Destroyers of the United States Navy: USS Benjamin Stoddert, USS Tattnall, USS Berkeley, USS Towers, USS Barney. To get started finding Charles F. Adams Class Destroyers of the United States Navy: USS Benjamin Stoddert, USS Tattnall, USS Berkeley, USS Towers, USS Barney, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Charles F. Adams Class Destroyers of the United States Navy: USS Benjamin Stoddert, USS Tattnall, USS Berkeley, USS Towers, USS Barney
Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: USS Benjamin Stoddert, USS Tattnall, USS Berkeley, USS Towers, USS Barney, USS Joseph Strauss, USS Waddell, USS Robison, USS Richard E. Byrd, USS Sampson, USS Semmes, USS Hoel, USS Lynde McCormick, USS John King, USS Conyngham, USS Lawrence, USS Claude V. Ricketts, USS Goldsborough, USS Charles F. Adams, USS Buchanan, USS Cochrane, USS Henry B. Wilson, USS Sellers. Excerpt: USS Benjamin Stoddert (DDG-22), named for Benjamin Stoddert (1751-1813), Secretary of the Navy from 1798 to 1801, was a Charles F. Adams-class guided missile armed destroyer in the United States Navy. She was laid down by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company at Seattle in Washington on 11 June 1962, launched on 8 January 1963; sponsored by Mrs. Nancee Ravenel, a great, great, great, granddaughter of the Honorable Benjamin Stoddert; and commissioned at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on 12 September 1964; Commander Walter Megginness in command. Over the next six weeks, Benjamin Stoddert fitted out at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, preparing for a series of weapon, sensor, and communication system tests. The guided-missile destroyer departed Bremerton for the first time on 7 November and, after brief stops at San Francisco and San Diego, arrived at Pearl Harbor to commence acceptance trials. Since she was primarily designed to provide long-range antiaircraft cover for task forces at sea, Benjamin Stoddert conducted a two-month evaluation of her TARTAR antiaircraft missile system, concluding with a test firing off Kauai, Hawaii, in early February 1965. Other tests - including gunnery, torpedo, and engineering exercises - helped the crew tie her antisubmarine, antiair, and communications gear into a single integrated system. In May, the warship entered the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard for a two-month maintenance period. In July, Benjamin Stodde...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Charles F. Adams Class Destroyers of the United States Navy: USS Benjamin Stoddert, USS Tattnall, USS Berkeley, USS Towers, USS Barney. To get started finding Charles F. Adams Class Destroyers of the United States Navy: USS Benjamin Stoddert, USS Tattnall, USS Berkeley, USS Towers, USS Barney, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.