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U.S.S. SPRUANCE
(DD-963)FORTITUDE - WISDOM - REASON
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USS SPRUANCE (DD-963) - a Spruance class destroyer
In Commission 1975 to 2005DD-963 Deployments - Major Events
| Add a DD-963 Shellback Initiation | Add a DD-963 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
| Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NOV | 1972 | - | Keel Date: 27 NOV 1972 at Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula MS | ||
| NOV | 1973 | - | Launch Date: 10 NOV 1973 | ||
| SEP | 1975 | - | Commissioned: 20 SEP 1975 | ||
| OCT | 1975 | - | NOV | 1975 | Guantanamo Bay |
| OCT | 1975 | - | NOV | 1975 | Sea Trials |
| FEB | 1978 | - | Shellback Initiation - 14 FEB 1978 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
| FEB | 1978 | - | Shellback Initiation - 2 FEB 1978 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
| OCT | 1978 | - | APR | 1979 | Mediterranean |
| OCT | 1979 | - | APR | 1980 | Mediterranean |
| APR | 1980 | - | JUL | 1980 | Dry Dock |
| MAR | 1982 | - | MAY | 1982 | Suez Canal |
| APR | 1982 | - | Shellback Initiation - 29 APR 1982 - Indian Ocean | ||
| JUN | 1982 | - | SEP | 1982 | Spruance was deployed to the Arabian Sea in 1982 |
| JUL | 1982 | - | AUG | 1982 | Panama Canal |
| JAN | 1983 | - | JUN | 1983 | Persian Gulf where she spent over four and a half months. |
| JUN | 1983 | - | DEC | 1983 | Mediterranean |
| FEB | 1984 | - | AUG | 1984 | North Atlantic |
| MAY | 1985 | - | AUG | 1985 | Spruance entered the yard for her second overhaul |
| JUN | 1986 | - | JUN | 1987 | Overhaul - Removed ASROC Box Launher - Installed VLS/Rast |
| APR | 1988 | - | OCT | 1988 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
| SEP | 1988 | - | SEP | 1988 | Blue Nose - Arctic Ocean |
| JAN | 1989 | - | JUN | 1992 | Desert Storm |
| AUG | 1990 | - | APR | 1991 | Desert Storm |
| MAY | 1993 | - | NOV | 1993 | Spruance was assigned to the Red Sea to enforce U.N. truce |
| JUL | 1994 | - | SEP | 1994 | Operation Restore Democracy Spruance onboard 900 Haitian Refugees |
| SEP | 1994 | - | JAN | 1995 | Portsmouth Virginia for a period of dry-dock repairs |
| JUN | 1996 | - | OCT | 1996 | Spruance took part in the 24th annual U.S. invitational maritime |
| APR | 1997 | - | OCT | 1997 | Spruance was attached to the USS John F. Kennedy carrier group |
| JUN | 2000 | - | AUG | 2000 | Spruance entered the dry dock in Jacksonville |
| SEP | 2000 | - | DEC | 2004 | She remained with JFK group operating in the waters around Florida |
| APR | 2002 | - | OCT | 2002 | Mediterranean |
| AUG | 2003 | - | OCT | 2003 | North Atlantic |
| JUN | 2004 | - | DEC | 2004 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
| MAR | 2005 | - | Decommissioned: 23 MAR 2005 | ||
| DEC | 2006 | - | DEC | 2006 | Sunk as a target |
DD-963 General Specifications
Class: Spruance class destroyer
Named for: Raymond A. Spruance
Complement: 19 Officers and 315 Enlisted
Displacement: 8040 tons
Length: 529 feet
Beam: 55 feet
Flank Speed: 32 Knots
Range: 6 000 nautical miles
Final Disposition:Sunk as Target 8 December 2006
USS SPRUANCE (DD-963)
Spruance (DD-963) was laid down on 27 November 1972 by Ingalls Shipbuilding Division at Pascagoula
Miss.; launched on 10 November 1973; sponsored by Mrs. Raymond A. Spruance; and commissioned on 20 September 1975
Comdr. Raymond J. Harbrecht in command.
[Note: The above USS SPRUANCE (DD-963) history may or may not contain text provided by crew members of the USS SPRUANCE (DD-963) or by other non-crew members and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]