USS Charles F. Adams (DDG-2)
USS Charles F. Adams (DDG-2), named for
Charles Francis Adams (1866-1954),
Secretary of the Navy from 1929 to 1933, was the lead ship of the class of guided missile armed
destroyers laid down by the Bath Iron Works at
Bath in
Maine on
16 June 1958, launched on
8 September 1959 by Mrs. R. Homans, sister of Mr. Adams and commissioned on
10 September 1960. USS Charles F. Adams was decommissioned and stricken from the
Naval Vessel Register on
20 November 1992 and held for donation at
Philadelphia in
Pennsylvania.