USS Goldsborough (DDG-20)
USS Goldsborough off Bahrain in 1986 | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Goldsborough |
| Namesake | Louis M. Goldsborough |
| Ordered | 25 March 1960 |
| Builder | Puget Sound Bridge and Drydock Company |
| Laid down | 3 January 1961 |
| Launched | 15 December 1961 |
| Commissioned | 9 November 1963 |
| Decommissioned | 29 April 1993 |
| Stricken | 29 April 1993 |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Sold to Australia for parts and scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Charles F. Adams-class destroyer |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 437 ft (133 m) |
| Beam | 47 ft (14 m) |
| Draft | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
| Range | 4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
| Complement | 354 (24 officers, 330 enlisted) |
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| Aircraft carried | None |
USS Goldsborough (DDG-20) was a Charles F. Adams–class guided missile-armed destroyer. It was named for Rear Admiral Louis M. Goldsborough USN (1805–1877).