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Saturday, December 16, 2006

Original U.S. Navy Spruance-Class Destroyer Sunk

USS SpruanceThe mother of all Spruances now sleeps with the fishes.

The destroyer Spruance, first of the 31 DD 963 Spruance-class destroyers, sank in the early hours of Dec. 8 after serving the previous day as a target for aircraft-launched Harpoon missiles, according to the U.S. Navy.

P-3C Orion and F/A-18 Hornet aircraft from Carrier Air Wing 8 and Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing 5 launched the missiles, said Lt. Mike Kafka of the Norfolk-based Second Fleet.

The sink exercise — or “sinkex” — took place in rough weather in the Atlantic Ocean about three hundred miles off the Virginia coast, Kafka said.

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