Country: Greece.
Class, [Type]: Charles F. Adams, [DDG].

Builder: New York Shipbuilding Corporation, USA.
Launch date: 9 December 1961.
Commission date: 1 October 1992.
Decommission date: 29 July 2002.

Displacement ( tons ): 3350 standard, 4500 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 133 x 14,5 x 6.
Main machinery: 2 x General Electric steam turbines ( 70000 hp ).
Speed ( knots ): 33.
Range ( miles ): 4500 at 20 knots.
Complement: 354 ( 24 officers ).

Guns: 2 x 1 127mm Mk42.
Missiles: 1 x 1 Mk13 launcher for: SSM: 4 x RGM-84A/C Harpoon and SAM: 36 x Standard SM-1 MR missiles.
A/S weapons: 1 x 8 Mk16 ASROC.
Torpedoes: 2 x 3 324mm Mk32. 

Radars: Air search: AN/SPS-40, AN/SPS-52; Surface search: AN/SPS-10; Fire control: 2 x AN/SPG-51, AN/SPG-53.
Sonars: AN/SQS-23.
Comment: Ex - US Navy ship Joseph Strauss ( DDG-16 ).

Year of visit the Black Sea:  1993 | 1996