USS Cochrane
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Design and description
The Charles F. Adams class was based on a stretched Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". hull modified to accommodate smaller RIM-24 Tartar surface-to-air missiles and all their associated equipment.[1] The ships had an overall length of Script error: No such module "convert"., a beam of Script error: No such module "convert". and a deep draft of Script error: No such module "convert".. They displaced Script error: No such module "convert". at full load. Their crew consisted of 18 officers and 320 enlisted men.[2]
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 Script error: No such module "convert". to reach the designed speed of Script error: No such module "convert".. The Adams class had a range of Script error: No such module "convert". at a speed of Script error: No such module "convert"..[1]
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 Script error: No such module "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.[1]
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.[3]
On 1 October 1980 Cochrane rescued 104 Vietnamese refugees Script error: No such module "convert". east of Saigon.[4] 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."
Notes
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- ↑ a b c Gardiner, Chumley & Budzbon, p. 587
- ↑ Friedman, p. 422
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ October - This day in History Archived copy at the Library of Congress (April 7, 2010).
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References
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External links
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External links
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