Charles F. Adams-class destroyer

The Charles F. Adams class was a group of 29 guided-missile destroyers built between 1958 and 1967: 23 for the United States Navy, three for the Royal Australian Navy and three for the West German Bundesmarine. Known as project SCB 155, the design took the Forrest Sherman hull, added 19 feet amidships to make room for an ASROC launcher, and was the first designed from the start as a guided-missile destroyer. The Adams ships were the last steam turbine-powered destroyers built for the US Navy; every destroyer since the Spruance class has used gas turbines. Some of the American ships served during the blockade of Cuba in 1962 and in the Vietnam War, and the Australian ships served in Vietnam and the Gulf War. Bath Iron Works in Maine built four of the 23 American ships.