USS Cochrane (DDG-21) was a guided missile destroyer built for the United States Navy in the 1960s.
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 overall length of 437feet, a beam of 47feet and a deep draft of 15feet. They displaced 4526LT at full load. Their crew consisted of 18 officers and 320 enlisted men.[1]
The ships were equipped with two geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by four water-tube boilers. The turbines were intended to produce 70000shp to reach the designed speed of 33kn. The Adams class had a range of 4500nmi at a speed of .[2]
The Charles F. Adams-class ships were armed with two 5"/54 caliber Mark 42 gun forward, one each forward and aft of the superstructure. They were fitted with an eight-round ASROC launcher between the funnels. Close-range anti-submarine defense was provided by two triple sets of 12.75inches 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 Mk 13 missile launcher and the ships stowed a total of 40 missiles for the launcher.[2]
Cochrane, named for Vice Admiral Edward L. Cochrane, USN, was laid down by the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company at Seattle, Washington on 31 July 1961, launched on 18 July 1962 and commissioned on 21 March 1964. In April 1975 Cochrane participated in Operation Frequent Wind, the evacuation of Saigon, Vietnam.[3]
On 1 October 1980 Cochrane rescued 104 Vietnamese refugees 620miles east of Saigon.[4] Cochrane was decommissioned on 1 October 1990, struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 20 November 1992 and sold as scrap to International Shipbreaking, Incorporated, of Brownsville in Texas on 14 November 2000.
Cochrane appears in the original Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series) season 8 episode Murder: Eyes Only.
Cochrane also appears in the 1987 Kevin Costner film "No Way Out."