USSSellers underway in the 1980s
History
United States
Name	Sellers
Namesake	David F. Sellers
Ordered	17 January 1958
Builder	Bath Iron Works
Laid down	3 August 1959
Launched	9 September 1960
Acquired	20 October 1961
Commissioned	28 October 1961
Decommissioned	31 October 1989
Stricken	20 November 1992
Identification	Callsign: NIUZ Hull number: DDG-11
Motto	Guardian of Freedom
Fate	Scrapped, 15 September 2004
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General characteristics
Class and type	Charles F. Adams-classdestroyer
Displacement	3,277 tons standard, 4,526 full load
Length	437 ft (133 m)
Beam	47 ft (14 m)
Draft	15 ft (4.6 m)
Propulsion	2 ×General Electric steam turbines providing 70,000 shp (52 MW); 2 shafts 4 ×Babcock & Wilcox 1,275 psi (8,790 kPa) boilers
Speed	33knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Range	4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h)
Complement	338 (18 officers, 320 enlisted)
Sensors and processing systems	AN/SPS-39 3D air search radar AN/SPS-10 surface search radar AN/SPG-51 missile fire control radar AN/SPG-53 gunfire control radar AN/SQS-23 Sonar and the hull mounted SQQ-23 Pair Sonar for DDG-2 through 19 AN/SPS-40 Air Search Radar
Armament	1 ×Mk 11 missile launcher forRIM-24 TartarSAM system, or later theRIM-66 Standard (SM-1) andHarpoon antiship missile 2 ×5"/54 caliber Mark 42 (127 mm) gun 1 × 8-cellRUR-5 ASROC launcher 2 × triple 12.75-inch (324 mm)Mk 32 torpedo tubes)

USSSellers (DDG-11) was aCharles F. Adams-classguided-missile destroyer built for theUnited States Navy in the 1950s.

TheCharles F. Addams class was based on a stretchedForrest Sherman-classdestroyer hull modified to accommodate smallerRIM-24 Tartarsurface-to-air missiles and all their associated equipment.^[1] The ships had anoverall length of 437 feet (133.2 m), abeam of 47 feet (14.3 m) and a deepdraft of 15 feet (4.6 m). Theydisplaced 4,526 long tons (4,599 t) at full load. Their crew consisted of 18 officers and 320 enlisted men.^[2]

The ships were equipped with two gearedsteam turbines, each driving onepropeller shaft, using steam provided by fourwater-tube boilers. The turbines were intended to produce 70,000shaft horsepower (52,000 kW) to reach the designed speed of 33knots (61 km/h; 38 mph). TheAdams class had a range of 4,500nautical miles (8,300 km; 5,200 mi) at a speed of 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph).^[1]

TheCharles F. Adams-class ships were armed with two5"/54 caliber Mark 42 guns, one forward and one aft of thesuperstructure. They were fitted with an eight-roundASROC launcher between thefunnels. Close-range anti-submarine defense was provided by two triple sets of 12.75-inch (324 mm)Mk 32 torpedo tubes. The primary armament of the ships was the Tartar surface-to-air missile designed to defend thecarrier battle group. They were fired via the dual-armMk 11 missile launcher and the ships stowed a total of 42 missiles for the launcher.^[1]

Sellers, named for AdmiralDavid F. Sellers, was laid down by theBath Iron Works atBath inMaine on 3 August 1959, launched on 9 September 1960 by Mrs. Hugh Scott and commissioned on 28 October 1961.Sellers was decommissioned on 31 October 1989, stricken from theNaval Vessel Register on 20 November 1992 and sold on 25 July 1995.

As of 2005, no other U.S. Navy ship has been namedSellers.

• Friedman, Norman (1982).U.S. Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.ISBN 0-87021-733-X.
• Gardiner, Robert; Chumbley, Stephen & Budzbon, Przemysław (1995).Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.ISBN 1-55750-132-7.
•  This article includes information collected from theNaval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in thepublic domain. The entry can be foundhere.

• MaritimeQuest USS Sellers DDG-11 pages
• USS Sellers Association

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