USS Kinkaid (DD-965)
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| Missing image USSKinkaidDD-965.jpg USS Kinkaid (DD-965) off the coast of California. | |
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| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 19 April 1973 |
| Launched: | 25 May 1974 |
| Commissioned: | 10 July 1976 |
| Decommissioned: | 7 January 2003 |
| Struck: | 6 April 2004 |
| Fate: | sunk as a target, 14 July 2004 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 8,040 tons full load. |
| Length: | 529 feet waterline; 563 feet overall |
| Beam: | 55 feet |
| Draught: | 29 feet |
| Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines; 80,000 shp (60 MW); 2 x shafts |
| Speed: | 32.5 knots (60 km/h) |
| Range: | 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km) at 20 knots; 3,300 nautical miles at 30 knots (56 km/h) |
| Complement: | 19 officers, 315 enlisted |
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| Aircraft: | 2 x SH-60B Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters. |
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| Motto: | "Steadfast and True" |
USS Kinkaid (DD-965), named for Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid USN (1888–1972), was a Spruance class destroyer built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula in Mississippi.
In November of 1989, Kinkaid and the Panamanian registered freighter M/V Kota Petani were involved in a collision in the Strait of Malacca. The collision caused one death and 15 other casualties to the Kinkaid's crew, and US$15 million in damages to Kinkaid. She made Singapore under her own power for temporary repairs, then Subic Bay, Philippines, then San Diego, California for permanent repairs.
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Ship's crest
External Links
- Kinkaid decommissions (http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=5308) article from Navy News
- Naval Vessel Register entry for Kinkaid (http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/DD965.htm)
- navsource.org: USS Kinkaid (http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/965.htm)
- navysite.de: USS Kinkaid (http://www.navysite.de/dd/dd965.htm)