USS Cochrane
USS Cochrane (DDG-21) was a Template:Sclass guided missile destroyer built for the United States Navy in the 1960s.
Design and description
The Charles F. Adams class was based on a stretched Template:Sclass hull modified to accommodate smaller RIM-24 Tartar surface-to-air missiles and all their associated equipment.<ref name=g8/> The ships had an overall length of Template:Convert, a beam of Template:Convert and a deep draft of Template:Convert. They displaced Template:Convert at full load. Their crew consisted of 18 officers and 320 enlisted men.<ref name=f3>Friedman, p. 422</ref>
The ships were equipped with two geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by four water-tube boilers. The turbines were intended to produce Template:Convert to reach the designed speed of Template:Convert. The Adams class had a range of Template:Convert at a speed of Template:Convert.<ref name=g8>Gardiner, Chumley & Budzbon, p. 587</ref>
The Charles F. Adams-class ships were armed with two 5"/54 caliber Mark 42 gun forward, one each forward and aft of the superstructure. They were fitted with an eight-round ASROC launcher between the funnels. Close-range anti-submarine defense was provided by two triple sets of Template:Convert Mk 32 torpedo tubes. The primary armament of the ships was the Tartar surface-to-air missile designed to defend the carrier battle group. They were fired via the Mk 13 missile launcher and the ships stowed a total of 40 missiles for the launcher.<ref name=g8/>
Construction and career
Cochrane, named for Vice Admiral Edward L. Cochrane, USN, was laid down by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company at Seattle, Washington on 31 July 1961, launched on 18 July 1962 and commissioned on 21 March 1964. In April 1975 Cochrane participated in Operation Frequent Wind, the evacuation of Saigon, Vietnam.<ref>By Sea, Air and Land: An Illustrated History of the U.S. Navy and the war in Southeast Asia Chapter 5: The Final Curtain, 1973-1975 Archived copy at the Library of Congress (April 9, 2010).</ref>
On 1 October 1980 Cochrane rescued 104 Vietnamese refugees Template:Convert east of Saigon.<ref>October - This day in History Archived copy at the Library of Congress (April 7, 2010).</ref> Cochrane was decommissioned on 1 October 1990, struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 20 November 1992 and sold as scrap to International Shipbreaking, Incorporated, of Brownsville in Texas on 14 November 2000.
In popular culture
Cochrane appears in the original Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series) season 8 episode Murder: Eyes Only.
Cochrane also appears in the 1987 Kevin Costner film "No Way Out."
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- {{#invoke:Naval Vessel Register|main}}