USS Briscoe (DD-977)
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| Ordered: | 26 January 1972 |
| Laid down: | 21 July 1975 |
| Launched: | 28 December 1976 |
| Commissioned: | 3 June 1978 |
| Decommissioned: | 2 October 2003 |
| Fate: | To be disposed of in support of fleet training exercise |
| Struck: | 6 April 2004 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 9255 tons, full load |
| Length: | 563' |
| Beam: | 55' |
| Draught: | 32' maximum |
| Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines; 80,000 shp (60 MW); 2 x shafts. |
| Speed: | 30+ knots official, 33 knots reported |
| Range: | 6000 nautical miles @ 20 knots |
| Complement: | 30 officers, 352 enlisted |
| Armament: | 61-cell Vertical Launching System
2 x MK141 quad launchers with 8 Harpoon missiles MK29 Launcher for AIM-7 Sparrow 2 x 5 inch (127 mm) 54 calibre Mark 45 dual purpose guns 2 x 20 mm Phalanx CIWS Mark 15 guns 2 x MK 32 triple tube mounts with six Mark 46 torpedo 21-cell RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile launcher |
| Aircraft: | 2 x SH-60B Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters. |
| Motto: | "Efficiency and Valor" |
USS Briscoe (DD-977), named for Rear Admiral Robert Pierce Briscoe USN, is a Spruance class destroyer built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula in Mississippi.
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Ship's crest
Some highlights of her career include:
- Setting a U.S. record of 275 for most merchant vessel boardings in the North Red Sea in support of U.N. sanctions against Iraq.
- Served as on-scene commander for the rescue of 500 passengers of an Egyptian passenger ferry in the North Red Sea.
- Served in support of Operation Urgent Fury, the liberation of Grenada.
- Served as part of Multi-National Peacekeeping Forces off Lebanon.
- In July, 1999 she was tasked with conducting the at sea burial of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, and sister in law.
- In 1980, won the coveted Battenberg Cup for finest ship in the Atlantic Fleet.
- Her last deployment was in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and fired 25 Tomahawk cruise missiles on targets in Iraq.
- Served in the Persian Gulf, Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, Red Sea, and Mediterranean Sea.
External Links
- Unofficial USS Briscoe webpage (http://www.navysite.de/dd/dd977.htm)
- Naval Vessel Register entry for USS Briscoe (http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/DD977.htm)