USS LYNDE McCORMICK DDG 8

DDG 8   LYNDE McCORMICK   San Diego   28 06 1987                            ( Original  b & w  negative in collection  )

DDG 8   LYNDE McCORMICK
FLAG : U.S.A
TYPE : CHARLES F.ADAMS - CLASS GUIDED MISSILE DESTROYER  ( DDG )
LAID DOWN : 04 April 1958
LAUNCHED  : 28 July 1959
COMMISSIONED : 03 June 1961
DECOMMISSIONED : 01 October 1991

Decommissioned the first of october 1991 she was stricken 20 november 1992 from the Naval Register. Sold on 20 June 1994 to Consolidated Minerals for conversion into a power barge. As the conversion programme have been cancelled she returned to Navy control from 23 March 1999.
Finally she was sunk,  used as a target ship, on February 24 2001.