Builder:
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington
Keel laid:
25 September 1962
Launched:
30 June 1964
Commissioned: 08 April 1967
Dimensions:
Length - 547 feet
Beam - 54 feet 9"
Displacement:
7,890 tons (full load - as designed)
Propulsion:
Two DeLaval steam turbines - 85,000 shp; 2 shafts
Four 1200 psi Combusion Engineering boilers
Two
Six-bladed constant pitch props
Single rudder
Speed:
34 knots
Range:
7,100 n. miles at 20 knots
Crew:
418 (31 officers, 387 enlisted) including squadron staff
Electronics:
NTDS (Naval Tactical Data System)
Helicopters:
One
LAMPS (Light Airborn Multi-Purpose System) Kaman SH-2
Missiles:
One Dual railed Mk 10 Mod 7 launcher for Terrier/Standard-ER SAM
Magazine capacity = 60 combined
Terrier and ASROC)
Guns:
One 5-inch 54-caliber Dual purpose Mk 42
Two 3-inch 50-caliber single barreled
ASW Weapons: ASROC launched
from Mk 10 missile launcher
Two triple tube Mk 32 torpedo mounts
Radars:
SPS-10 Surface search (replaced by SPS-67 in 1991)
SPS-40 Air search radar
SPS-48 3-D search
Sonars:
SQS-26 bow mounted sonar
Fire Control:
One MK 14
Weapons Direction System
One Mk 114 AWS Fire Control System
One Mk 76
Mod 9 missile fire control system using 2 SPG-55B radars
One Mk 68
Gun Fire Control System with SPG-53F radar (5" gun)
Two Manual
visual directors for 3" 50 caliber guns