Last Pictures

Charles F. Adams Class DDG

Last Pics

CFA Class Last Pictures

United states Navy

She is rusting away.

USS Charles F Adams DDG-2

Mare Island Naval Shipyard 1998

USS John King DDG-3

The top photograph is of DDG-5/6/4. The Barney is in the middle. The Ricketts,
DDG-5, is the one on the left that is chopped up from cancelled conversion.
The other is the Lawrence, which appears to be fully intact but
was in conversion before repossession by the Navy.

USS Lawrence DDG-4

USS Claude V Rickets DDG-5

USS Barney DDG-6

Atlantic Fleet Sales (James River Reserve Fleet)

Bridge, mast and ASROC of the USS WILSON (DDG-7) sitting on the pier after being cut from the ship.

Mare Island , Vallejo ,Ca October 31 ,2002. Still sitting there today.

Courtesy of G. Ben Miller III, MM2 EMO2, 1978-82

USS Henry B Wilson DDG-7

DDG-8 under tow to
Suisun Bay from Mare Island on 2/2/2001.

USNS Sioux

(T-ATF-171) towing Lynde McCormick to Sink-Ex.

Sunk as a target 2-14-01

USS Lynde McCormick DDG-8

At sea aboard USS Sides, Oct. 8, 2002 — A Standard SM-1 missile is launched from USS Sides (FFG 14) at ex-USS Towers (DDG 9) during a live-fire missile exercise held near San Diego.

USS Towers DDG-9

Scrapping of USS Sampson (DDG 10) in Philadelphia in June 2003.

USS Sampson DDG-10

USS Sellers DDG-11

DDGs 9, 12, & 13. Hunters Point, 1995

USS Robison DDG-12

Converted to power barge.

USS Hoel DDG-13

Safe to assume this is the last picture of the Buchanan.

USS Buchanan DDG-14

Α/Τ ΘΕΜΙΣΤΟΚΛΗΣ

(D 221), Τύπου "ΚΙΜΩΝ"

Souda Bay, Crete

7/16/2003

USS Berkeley DDG-15

Front to back: the COCHRANE (DDG-21), the HENRY B. WILSON (DDG-7), the JOSEPH STRAUSS (DDG-16) and the HOEL (DDG-13).

Left to right: the HOEL (DDG-13), the JOSEPH STRAUSS (DDG-16), the HENRY B. WILSON (DDG-7) and the COCHRANE (DDG-21). NAVAL STATION, PEARL HARBOR, HAWAII (HI) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

HS Formion (D-220), ex-USS Joseph Strauss, at Souda Bay, Crete, following their decommissioning, on July 29,2000

HS FORMION D-220at CHIOS Island, in Aegean Sea ,during an exercise with NEARCHOS.

Souda Bay, Crete

7/16/2003

USS Joseph Strauss DDG-16

USS Conyngham DDG-17

Α/Τ ΚΙΜΩΝ (D 218) Τύπου "ΚΙΜΩΝ"

USS Semmes DDG-18

USS Tattnall DDG-19

The RANs fourth Charles F. Adams Class DDG was DDG-20 purchased for spare parts. Shown here Sydney Harbor February 1994.

USS Goldsborough DDG-20

Photo taken in May 2001 when some of Cochrane crew went to
Texas to see her.

USS Cochrane DDG-21

Taken in 94. She was sunk in 97.

USS Benjamin Stoddert DDG-22

Sunk as target 6/19/2003

On June 19,2003, the Hellenic Navy sunk off Crete, ex-USS Richard E.Byrd (DDG-23), a destroyer never in service with the HN, which used it solely for spares, in order to support its operational quartet of C.F.Adams-class destroyers. DDG-23 was sunk after being hit by a MM-38 Exocet SSM, fired from 32,000 yds away, by HS Blessas (P-21), two Penguin SSMs, fired from 22,000 yds away, by HS Starakis (P-29) and two Mk 8 torpedos, launched one each ,by HS Lelaps (P-54) and HS Typhon (P-56). Blessas is a Combattante III FAC(M), Starakis a Combattante IIIb FAC(M), while Lelaps and Typhon are Jaguar/Klasse 141 MTBs. Photo credit : Hellenic Navy

USS Richard E. Byrd DDG-23

HS Nearchos D-219 Decommissioning, Souda Bay, Crete 7/16/2003

Two photos the Hellenic Navy released from the sinking of the Nearchos. Both pictures show the point of impact of the MBDA MM-40 Block 2 Exocet Surface-to-Surface Missiles. Photo Credit: Hellenic Navy

USS Waddell DDG-24

Royal Australian Navy

Pictures taken on 11/24/01 when PERTH(2) was sunk in Princess Royal Harbor to be used as a dive wreck.

HMAS Perth DDG-38

EX-HMAS Hobart was scuttled on November 5, 2002 as a reef off Yankalilla, South Australia. Click here for pictures.

HMAS Hobart DDG-39

Brisbane is slated to be sunk as a dive wreck off the Queensland coast, however political debate has stalled the process. Exposed to the element and with no upkeep crew, she's starting to look very tatty. A sad end for a proud ship.

HMAS Brisbane (DDG 41) tied up alongside the ex Naval base of Platypus

in Sydney harbour.

HMAS BRISBANE, leaves Sydney Harbour for the last time enroot to Brisbane where she will be prepared for sinking as a dive wreck off the Queensland coast As you can see, Brissy has had a lot of her removed (Bridge section etc) This is all now at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, where it is to be set up so that people can walk through the bridge. The picture was taken on 7/15/2004 with the HMAS Brisbane arriving at the Port of Brisbane on 7/19/2004.

HMAS Brisbane DDG-41

German Navy

Lütjens Decommissioning 12/18/2003. Lütjens leaving the port of Wilhelmshaven. Last berth in Eckernfoerde. Destroyer Lütjens will be used for blast tests in the Baltic Sea probably next month and scrapped afterwards.