Before 1960

USS Lynde McCormick DDG 8

Ship’s Motto: Sine Timore (Without Fear)

Links:

The Bay City boy who became a major shipbuilder

Visit the Defoe Shipbuilding Co. website

About Defoe SB

The story of Harry J. Defoe and his company at bay-journal.com

YouTube -The Defoe Shipbuilding Company

Originally projected as DD-958; redesignated DDG prior to construction. Lynde McCormick (DDG-8) was laid down 4 April 1958 by Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, Michigan.

Her keel was laid on 4 April 1958.

She was launched 28 July 1959, with Lillian McCormick, wife of Admiral Lynde McCormick having the honors at the launching ceremonies.

Shortly thereafter the second guided missile warship ever built on the Great Lakes headed to the Atlantic Ocean via the then recently completed St. Lawrence Seaway.

Length: 437′

Job: #432, Keel laid: 4/4/58, Launched: 7/28/59

Dock Trial: 9/22/61, Builders Trial: 4/14/61

P.A.T.: 5/2-4/61, Depart Bay City: 5/23/61

Arrived Boston: 5/29/61, Delivered U.S.N.: 6/1/61

Commissioned: 6/3/61

Originally Classified as DD 958 Classification Changed to DDG 8: 4/23/57

Home Port: San Diego, CA.

Ships Fate; Stricken: 11/20/92, Sold: 6/20/94

UIC: 04674 Class: DDG 2 Fleet: PAC

Status: Disposed of by Navy sale

Date Status Changed: 6/20/94

Builder: DEFOE SB CO

Award Date: 3/28/57

Keel Date: 4/4/58

Launch Date: 7/28/59

Delivery Date: 5/29/61

Commission Date: 6/3/61

Decommission Date: 10/1/91

Age in Years (At Time of Disposal): 33.1

Years from Commission to Decommission: 30.3

Displacement: 4,500 Tons (Full Load)

Beam: 47 Feet

Max Speed: 30 Knots

Power Plant: 4 – 1200 PSI Boilers: 2 Geared Turbines, 2 Shafts; 70,000 Shaft Horsepower

Complement: 383 (20 Officers, 363 Enlisted)

Displacement: 3,370 Tons

Length: 437 Feet

Beam: 47 Feet

Draught: 22 Feet

Machinery: Two Shaft Geared Steam Turbines

Performance: 70,000 SHP for 31.5 Knots

Bunkerage:

Range:

Guns: Two 5 Inch MK 42

Missiles: Twin MK 11 Launcher

Torpedoes: Six 12.75 Inch (ASW), Two MK 32 Torpedo Tube Mounts

ASW Rockets: MK 112 ASROC Launcher

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NavSource Online: Destroyer Photo Archive

DD-958 / DDG-8 USS LYNDE McCORMICK

CLASS: CHARLES F. ADAMS As Built

Displacement: 4526 Tons (Full), Dimensions: 437′ (oa) x 47′ x 15′ (Max)

Armament: 2 x 5″/54 RF (2×1), Tartar SAM (1×2 Mk 11) ASROC ASW (1×8), 6 x 12.75″ Mk 32 ASW TT (2×3)

Machinery: 70,000 SHP; Geared Turbines, 2 screws

Speed: 33 Knots, Range: 4500 NM@ 20 Knots, Crew: 333-350.

Operational and Building Data

Laid down by Defoe Shipbuilding, Bay City Mich. on April 4 1958.

Launched July 28 1959 and commissioned June 3 1961.

Originally classified as DD-958, classification changed to DDG-8 April 23 1957.

Decommissioned October 1 1991.

Stricken November 20 1992.

Fate Sold June 20 1994 to Consolidated Minerals for conversion into power barge.

Returned to Navy control March 23 1999 and sunk as a target off California February 24, 2001

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