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unusual facts about guided missile destroyer



American Ship Hull numbers

For example the Perth class guided missile destroyers that were built for the Royal Australian Navy in Bay City, Michigan were given the hull numbers DDG-25, DDG-26, and DDG-27; but these hull numbers were not assigned to any American destroyers after the Australian Navy had changed those to its own identification numbers.


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George Kenneth Lucey Jr.

Margo Lucey won the Miss District of Columbia beauty contest and later was the first runner-up to Miss America (1956) during which she married David Denton who became Commander of a guided missile destroyer, USS McCain.

Hatakaze-class destroyer

The Hatakaze class of guided missile destroyers is a third generation vessel in service with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF).

Mount Chōkai

Three ships have been named after Mount Chōkai: Chōkai, an early steam gunboat, and the cruiser Chōkai (sunk in 1944), which were both in the Japanese Imperial Navy, and the JDS Chōkai, a Kongō class guided missile destroyer currently in service in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.