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just completed a maintenance availability and a fuel oil strainer had not been assembled properly by a contractor and not inspected to verify assembly by ships company. The result was that the assembly failed catastrophically and started a fuel oil fire, caused an officer to die, 18 other sailors to be injured and the ship to be decommissioned shortly thereafter.
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continued to support United States foreign policy when she served off the coast of Libya (1982); was awarded the Navy
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suffered a severe fire on 8 May 1990, while conducting pre-deployment operations off the
Virginia coast. A major fuel oil fire erupted from the ship's Forward Fire Room into the ship's superstructure, isolating the crew forward and aft, requiring an all-hands effort to extinguish it. The ship had
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made 15 Mediterranean deployments—three to the
Persian Gulf, seven to Northern Europe, and 11 deployments to the Caribbean. She distinguished herself during crises in Cyprus (1964, 1974); provided air cover for planes evacuating Americans from an insurrection in Amman, Jordan (1970); took part in
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Americans from Beirut, Lebanon (1976); and conducted Black Sea Freedom of Navigation operations (1979).
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753:"Irish Lass Returned Home--in Custody of Two Navy Agents"
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771:"Navy Ship Stowaway Is Sent Back to Ireland"
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836:MaritimeQuest USS Conyngham DDG-17 pages
734:"Sailors Convicted For Helping Stowaway"
19:For other ships with the same name, see
1595:Maritime incidents in the United States
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465:and commissioned on 13 June 1963.
390:5"/54 caliber Mark 42 (127 mm) gun
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222:General characteristics
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935:Claude V. Ricketts
891:United States Navy
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145:30 May 1991
121:1 July 1963
113:18 May 1962
1585:Ship fires
1575:1962 ships
1564:Categories
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1344:Shipwrecks
662:References
579:Gus Can Do
455:New Jersey
318:Complement
275:Propulsion
105:1 May 1961
1525:Trenchant
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1466:USS
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648:Conyngham
633:USS
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1475:27 May:
1444:25 Jan:
1394:27 Dec:
1362:13 Aug:
1352:30 Jul:
1271:Spruance
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1246:Berkeley
1217:Nearchos
1110:Brisbane
1045:Tattnall
996:Lawrence
947:Cochrane
921:Buchanan
914:Berkeley
793:Sentinel
627:Normandy
459:Oklahoma
418:(DDG-17)
398:Launcher
358:Armament
215:Scrapped
194:: DDG-17
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1514:bombing
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1485:8 Jun:
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1434:9 Jan:
1383:4 Dec:
1229:Formion
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1031:Sellers
1024:Sampson
1017:Robison
635:Briscoe
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543:America
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1038:Semmes
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388:2 ×
287:4 ×
280:2 ×
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376:SAM
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