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Career | |
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Ordered: | |
Laid down: | 23 October 1981 |
Launched: | 22 May 1982 |
Commissioned: | 21 May 1983 |
Fate: | in service |
Homeport: | Mayport, Florida |
General Characteristics | |
Displacement: | 2750 tons standard, 3638 tons full |
Length: | 445 feet |
Beam: | 45 feet |
Draft: | 24.5 feet |
Speed: | 29 knots |
Complement: | 13 officers, 19 aircrew, 174 men |
Armament: | one three-inch/62 Mk75 gun, one Phalanx CIWS, four 50-caliber machine guns, four Harpoon missiles, 36 SM-1MR Standard missiles, one Mk13 Mod4 launcher for both, six 324mm US Mk 32 (2 triple) tubes for Mk 46 torpedoes |
At about 8am local time on 11 September 2003, Doyle received a request from the German frigate FGS Niedersachsen (F208) to allow a close pass to starboard. The crew of Niedersachsen rendered honors to the United States by manning the rail in their dress uniforms, their covers held over their hearts.