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USS Berkeley at Pearl Harbor in 1986
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Name | Berkeley |
Namesake | Randolph C. Berkeley |
Ordered | 21 July 1959 |
Builder | New York Shipbuilding Corporation |
Laid down | 1 June 1960 |
Launched | 29 July 1961 |
Acquired | 30 November 1962 |
Commissioned | 15 December 1962 |
Decommissioned | 30 September 1992 |
Stricken | 1 May 1991 |
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Fate | Sold to Greece, 1 October 1992 |
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Name | Themistoklis |
Namesake | Themistocles |
Commissioned | 1 October 1992 |
Decommissioned | 18 February 2002 |
Identification | Hull number: D221 |
Fate | Scrapped, 19 February 2004. |
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Class and type | Charles F. Adams-class destroyer |
Displacement | 3,277 tons standard, 4,526 full load |
Length | 437 ft (133 m) |
Beam | 47 ft (14 m) |
Draft | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
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Speed | 33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph) |
Range | 4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
Complement | 354 (24 officers, 330 enlisted) |
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Aircraft carried | None |
USS Berkeley (DDG-15) was a Charles F. Adams-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for Major General Randolph C. Berkeley, USMC (1875–1960), a Medal of Honor recipient for actions during the U.S. occupation of Veracruz (1914).
She was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden in New Jersey on 1 June 1960,[2] launched on 29 July 1961 sponsored by Mrs. James B. Berkeley, Major General Berkeley's daughter-in-law; and commissioned on 15 December 1962 at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.[3]
Berkeley was decommissioned on 30 September 1992 at a ceremony in San Diego, California, and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.[4] She was turned over to the Hellenic Navy on 1 October, and recommissioned as the Greek destroyer Themistoklis (D221). The ship remained in Greek service until her decommissioning on 18 February 2002 and was sold for scrap in 2004.