USS Kinkaid
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22.9204170°N 159.9945830°W / 22.9204170; -159.9945830
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USS Kinkaid on 17 June 2002 | |
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United States | |
Name | Kinkaid |
Namesake | Thomas C. Kinkaid |
Ordered | 1 June 1970 |
Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
Laid down | 19 April 1973 |
Launched | 25 May 1974 |
Acquired | 1 June 1976 |
Commissioned | 10 July 1976 |
Decommissioned | 7 January 2003 |
Stricken | 6 April 2004 |
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Motto | Steadfast and True |
Nickname(s) | Kinky-D |
Fate | Sunk as target, 14 July 2004 |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Spruance-class destroyer |
Displacement | 8,040 (long) tons full load |
Length | 529 ft (161 m) waterline; 563 ft (172 m) overall |
Beam | 55 ft (16.8 m) |
Draft | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
Propulsion | 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 80,000 shp (60 MW) |
Speed | 32.5 knots (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph) |
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Complement | 19 officers, 315 enlisted |
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Electronic warfare & decoys |
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Aircraft carried | 2 × Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters. |
Aviation facilities | Flight deck and enclosed hangar for up to two medium-lift helicopters |
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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, Mississippi. Launched in 1974, she was decommissioned in 2003 and sunk in 2004. She was the third "Spru-can" to be built.[1]