Design and description
The ''Charles F. Adams'' class was based on a stretched hull modified to accommodate smaller RIM-24 Tartar surface-to-air missiles and all their associated equipment. The ships had an length overall, overall length of , a beam (nautical), beam of and a deep draft (ship), draft of . They Displacement (ship), displaced at full load. Their crew consisted of 333 officers and enlisted men. The ships were equipped with two geared General Electric steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by four D-V2M water-tube boilers. The turbines were intended to produce to reach the designed speed of . The ''Lütjens'' class had a range of at a speed of . Unlike their sister ship, half-sisters, the ships had two mack (naval architecture), macks.Gardiner, Chumley & Budzbon, p. 143 They were armed with two 5"/54 caliber Mark 42 gun forward, one each forward and aft of the superstructure. The ships were fitted with an eight-round RUR-5 ASROC, ASROC launcher between the funnel (ship), funnels. Close-range anti-submarine defense was provided by two triple sets of Mark 32 Surface Vessel Torpedo Tubes, Mk 32 torpedo tubes. The primary armament of the ships was the Tartar surface-to-air missile designed to defend the carrier battle group. They were fired via the single-arm Mk 13 missile launcher and the ships stowed a total of 40 missiles for the launcher.Construction and career
''Rommel'' was Keel laying, laid down on 22 August 1967 by Bath Iron Works of Bath, Maine with the hull classification symbol, hull number DDG-30. She was ceremonial ship launching, launched on 1 February 1969, and christened ''Rommel'' by Lucie Maria Rommel, widow of ''Generalfeldmarschall'' Erwin Rommel. The vessel was commissioned on 2 May 1970, and was added to the ''1. Zerstörergeschwader'' (first destroyer squadron), based in Kiel. She operated for 28 years. On 30 September 1998, ''Rommel'' was decommissioned. The operating licence for the boilers had expired and it was not considered efficient to refit her. She was towed to Wilhelmshaven to be Cannibalization of machine parts, cannibalised for spare parts to support her two sister ships, and . These two vessels continued to serve for five more years. In 2004 the hull of ''Rommel'' was Ship breaking, scrapped in Turkey.Notes
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