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U.S.S. LYNDE MCCORMICK
(DDG-8)SINE TIMORE
WITHOUT FEAR
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Class: Charles F. Adams-class guided missle destroyer
Named for: Admiral Lynde D. McCormick
Complement: 24 Officers and 330 Enlisted
Displacement: 3277 tons
Length: 437 feet
Beam: 47 feet
Draft: 15 feet
Flank Speed: 33 knots
Range: 4,500 nautical miles
Final Disposition: Sinkex target, 14 February 2001
DDG-8 Deployments - Major Events
Add a DDG-8 Shellback Initiation | Add a DDG-8 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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APR | 1958 | - | Keel Date: 4 APR 1958 at Defoe Shipbuilding Company Bay City MI | ||
JUL | 1959 | - | Launch Date: 28 JUL 1959 | ||
JUN | 1961 | - | Commissioned: 3 JUN 1961 | ||
OCT | 1962 | - | JUN | 1963 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
OCT | 1962 | - | FEB | 1963 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
AUG | 1964 | - | FEB | 1965 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
MAR | 1966 | - | AUG | 1966 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
AUG | 1967 | - | APR | 1968 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JAN | 1969 | - | JUL | 1969 | Deployment |
JUN | 1970 | - | MAR | 1971 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
AUG | 1970 | - | FEB | 1971 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
SEP | 1970 | - | Shellback Initiation - 16 SEP 1970 - Pacific Ocean | ||
JAN | 1971 | - | JAN | 1972 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JAN | 1971 | - | JAN | 1972 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JUL | 1971 | - | MAR | 1972 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
OCT | 1971 | - | MAR | 1972 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
OCT | 1971 | - | DEC | 1971 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JUL | 1973 | - | JAN | 1974 | West Pac |
JAN | 1975 | - | Shellback Initiation - 31 JAN 1975 - Indian Ocean | ||
JAN | 1975 | - | Shellback Initiation - 31 JAN 1975 - Pacific Ocean | ||
FEB | 1979 | - | JUN | 1979 | West Pac |
JAN | 1981 | - | JAN | 1981 | West Pac |
FEB | 1982 | - | AUG | 1982 | West Pac |
MAY | 1982 | - | Shellback Initiation - 29 MAY 1982 - Pacific Ocean | ||
AUG | 1983 | - | FEB | 1984 | West Pac-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
JUL | 1985 | - | DEC | 1985 | West Pac-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
JUL | 1985 | - | DEC | 1985 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
JAN | 1988 | - | JUL | 1988 | West Pac-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
MAR | 1988 | - | Shellback Initiation - 28 MAR 1988 - Indian Ocean | ||
SEP | 1989 | - | JUL | 1990 | West Pac-Indian Ocean |
OCT | 1990 | - | MAR | 1991 | West Pac |
OCT | 1991 | - | Decommissioned: 1 OCT 1991 |
DDG-8 General Specifications
Class: Charles F. Adams-class guided missle destroyer
Named for: Admiral Lynde D. McCormick
Complement: 24 Officers and 330 Enlisted
Displacement: 3277 tons
Length: 437 feet
Beam: 47 feet
Flank Speed: 33 knots
Range: 4 500 nautical miles
Final Disposition:Sinkex target 14 February 2001
USS LYNDE MCCORMICK (DDG-8)
Lynde McCormick (DDG‑8)
was laid down 4 April 1958 by Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, Mich.; launched
28 July 1959; sponsored by Mrs. Lillian McCormick, wife of Admiral McCormick;
and commissioned at Boston 3 June 1961, Cmdr. Ernest S. Cornwall, Jr., in
command.
Lynde McCormick departed
Boston 23 August 1961 for her home port, San Diego, arriving 16 September.
Early in 1962 she tested her missiles and antisubmarine weaponry in the Pacific
missile range. Exercises and experiments continued in preparation for
deployment to the western Pacific, for which she sailed 19 November 1962.
She arrived Yokosuka 6 December and within a
week was on station with a 7th Fleet task group, taking up her part in the
schedule of readiness training and exercises which have made the 7th Fleet a
potent force working for peace in the Far East. Returning San Diego 15 June
1963, she proceeded to Sacramento to help initiate its new deep water, port.
All‑encompassing refresher training followed overhaul and modification at
Hunter's Point early in 1964, increasing her antiair warfare capabilities. A
high state of readiness had been achieved when the Tonkin Bay incidents of 2
and 4 August escalated the conflict in Vietnam.
In company with CruDesFlot 11, Lynde
McCormick departed 5 August for a 6‑month deployment along the
Vietnamese coast, primarily in the screen for Bon Homme Richard and
other carriers. She returned to San Diego 6 February 1965. Lynde McCormick spent
the remainder of the year conducting coastal exercises, a successful
competitive firing of her, missiles, and a summer cruise to Hawaii training
midshipmen.
After antisubmarine exercises with the Canadian
Navy in January 1966, Lynde McCormick prepared for a third tour of duty
in WestPac. She left San Diego 1 March and 1 month later was shelling Vietcong
bunkers and gun emplacements in the Mekong Delta. In May she sailed up the
eastern coast to support Yankee Station carrier operations against North
Vietnam until August, when she sailed for her home port, arriving San Diego the
26th. On 27 October she entered drydock at Long Beach for a thorough overhaul.
This was completed 23 March 1967.
Refresher training began on 15 May, and was
interrupted on the 27th when she rushed to the aid of a stricken crewmember of
88 Pacific Comet. DDG‑8 continued operating out of San Diego until
17 August, at which time she departed for another WestPac deployment.
Lynde McCormick saw extensive action on the gunline
and in patrolling the Vietnam coastline. Many rounds of 5‑inch ammunition
were expended at enemy emplacements and supply lines, in aid of United States
and other Allied troops ashore. The ship returned to the west coast 6 April
1968 and operated in the eastern Pacific for the remainder of the year, into
1969.
[Note: The above USS LYNDE MCCORMICK (DDG-8) history may, or may not, contain text provided by crew members of the USS LYNDE MCCORMICK (DDG-8), or by other non-crew members, and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]