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{{Infobox ship career
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|Ship country=United States
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|Ship name=''Arthur W. Radford''
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|Ship motto=''Patriotism, Perseverance, and Preparedness''<ref>{{cite web |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20000623000324/http://www.spear.navy.mil/ships/dd968/Shipcrst.htm |archive-date= 2000-06-23 |url= http://www.spear.navy.mil/ships/dd968/Shipcrst.htm |title= Ship's Crest |website= USS Arthur W. Radford (DD-968) |date= 2000 |quote= Admiral Radford's career was dominated by three traits which are displayed on the Navy Blue banner beneath the shield: Patriotism, Perseverance, and Preparedness. Today these qualities serve as the guiding motto for USS ARTHUR W. RADFORD's crew.}}</ref>
|Ship fate=[[Scuttling|Scuttled]], 10 August 2011
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'''USS ''Arthur W. Radford'' (DD-968)''' was a {{sclass
==Construction and commissioning==
''Arthur W. Radford'' was [[Keel-laying|laid down]] 31 January 1974 by the [[Ingalls Shipbuilding]] Division of [[Litton Industries]] at [[Pascagoula, Mississippi|Pascagoula]], [[Mississippi]], and [[Ceremonial ship launching|launched]] on 1 March 1975,{{efn|NVR and Janes ({{ISBN|0-7924-5626-2}} p.172) state launched 1 March 1975. DANFS and a ship published [http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/pix2/0596867.jpg welcome aboard pamphlet] (via navsource) state launched 27 February 1975. Biloxi Sun Herald states christened Saturday, 5 April 1975.}} [[Ship sponsor|sponsored]] by Mrs. Arthur Radford, the admiral's widow. ''Arthur W. Radford'' was [[Ship commissioning|commissioned]] on 16 April 1977,<ref name=DANFS>{{cite DANFS |url= http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/a/arthur-w-radford.html |title= Arthur W. Radford}}</ref>
== Early operations ==
Underway for the [[United States East Coast]] the day she was commissioned, ''Arthur W. Radford'' was forced to return to her builder's yard for repairs soon thereafter, but got underway again on 30 April. Touching at [[Charleston, South Carolina]], on 3 and 4 May, the ship proceeded to her home port [[Naval Station Norfolk|Norfolk, Virginia]], which she reached on 6 May.<ref name=DANFS />
Three days later, she steamed for [[Newport, Rhode Island]], to provide support for the Naval Surface Warfare Officer Training Command. While the ship proceeded north, a [[Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System|LAMPS]] helicopter practice-landed on her helo deck to prepare for the embarkation of a LAMPS III detachment. The helicopter returned to Norfolk later that day 11 May. Mooring at Newport on 13 May, the destroyer remained there until 17 May, when she headed home. Soon after returning to Norfolk, she conducted gunnery exercises and helicopter operations off the [[Virginia Capes]].<ref name=DANFS />
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== Second deployment and interim ==
[[File:USS ARTHUR W. RADFORD (DD-968) Panama Canal during Unitas XXI.jpg|thumb|''Arthur W. Radford'' (DD-968) transits the Panama Canal during Unitas XXI.]]
Following a brief period at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, ''Arthur W. Radford'' prepared for another extended deployment. She departed Norfolk on 21 June 1980, embarking HSL-34, Detachment 2 and proceeded to Roosevelt Roads, where she embarked Rear Admiral Peter K. Cullins, Commander, South Atlantic Force and his staff to become Cullins' flagship for UNITAS XXI. Visits to [[Saint Kitts]] and to [[Bridgetown]], Barbados, followed before the destroyer sailed for [[Venezuela]]n waters.<ref name=DANFS />
[[File:USS ARTHUR W RADFORD (DD-968) underway.jpg|thumb|upright|''Arthur W. Radford'' c.1981 with ASROC launcher, without CIWS and original mast.|left]]Over the next four months, ''Arthur W. Radford'' operated with elements of the [[Military of Venezuela|Venezuelan]], [[Military of Ecuador|Ecuadorian]], [[Military of Peru|Peruvian]], [[Military of Colombia|Colombian]], [[Military of Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad and Tobagonian]], [[Argentine Navy|Argentine]], [[Military of Uruguay|Uruguayan]], and [[Brazilian Navy|Brazilian]] navies. Her ports of call included [[Barcelona, Venezuela|Puerto La Cruz]] and [[La Guaira]], Venezuela, Rodman, [[Panama]], [[Manta, Ecuador|Manta]], Ecuador, Paito and [[Callao]], Peru, [[Cartagena, Colombia]]; [[Trinidad and Tobago]], [[Belgrano, Buenos Aires|Puerto Belgrano]], and [[Bahía Blanca]], Argentina, [[Montevideo]], Uruguay, and the Brazilian ports of [[Santos (São Paulo)|Santos]], [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Salvador, Brazil|Salvador]] and [[Recife]]. She also transited the [[Panama Canal]] twice during UNITAS XXI, the first time on 21 July 1980 and the second on 24 August.<ref name=DANFS />
[[File:USS ARTHUR W RADFORD (DD-968) underway.jpg|thumb|upright|''Arthur W. Radford'' c.1981 with ASROC launcher, without CIWS and original mast.]]▼
Completing UNITAS XXI on 4 November, ''Arthur W. Radford'' sailed for [[Gabon]], as a unit of the West Africa Training Cruise (WATC), reaching [[Libreville]], the capital of Gabon, on 12 November. Over the next few weeks, she visited [[Tema]], Ghana [[Freetown]], Sierra Leone, and [[Dakar]], Senegal. Clearing Dakar on 1 December, the destroyer stopped at [[Guadeloupe]] and at Roosevelt Roads on the return voyage and arrived at Norfolk on 15 December.<ref name=DANFS />
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Visiting Catania, Sicily, [[Monte Carlo]], Monaco, and [[Livorno]], Italy, ''Arthur W. Radford'' exercised with U.S. 6th Fleet battle groups later that summer, later visiting [[Gaeta]] and [[Naples]], Italy. While visiting [[Istanbul]], Turkey, she hosted the retired [[United States Army|Army]] leader and former presidential advisor General [[Alexander M. Haig]].<ref name=DANFS />
''Arthur W. Radford'' returned to the waters off Beirut on 18 September 1983 to assume duty as ready gunfire support ship. She conducted gunfire support missions<ref>{{cite news |url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2519&dat=19830922&id=qqddAAAAIBAJ&pg=3764,2967522&hl=en |title= US Navy Shells Syrian Artillery Positions |agency= Associated Press|newspaper= Observer-Reporter |location= Washington, PA |page= 1 |date= 22 September 1983 }}</ref> against forces threatening the peacekeeping force on 21 and 22 September until relieved on station by the battleship {{USS|New Jersey|BB-62|2}} on 8 October. Visits to [[La Maddalena]], [[Sardinia]], and to [[Tangier]], Morocco rounded out the destroyer's time in the U.S. 6th Fleet. Operating briefly with Spanish Navy units en route to the turnover port of Rota, ''Arthur W. Radford'' cleared Rota on 10 November with the [[carrier battle group|battle group]] formed around the carrier {{USS|Dwight D. Eisenhower|CVN-69|2}}. She arrived at Norfolk 11 days later, remaining there for the rest of
[[File:USS ARTHUR W. RADFORD (DD-968) participates in an underway replenishment with the battleship USS IOWA (BB-61).jpg|thumb|''Arthur W. Radford'' performing an underway replenishment with ''Iowa''.]]3.<ref name="DANFS" />▼
''Arthur W. Radford'' operated briefly in the Virginia Capes area in January 1984 before undergoing an overhaul at the [[Metro Machine Shipyard]] at [[Portsmouth, Virginia]], between 16 February and 27 April. Subsequently, undergoing sea trials and repairs in the [[floating drydock]] {{USS|Sustain|AFDM-7|2}}, ''Arthur W. Radford'' conducted routine training out of Norfolk through early August.<ref name=DANFS />
▲[[File:USS ARTHUR W. RADFORD (DD-968) participates in an underway replenishment with the battleship USS IOWA (BB-61).jpg|thumb|''Arthur W. Radford'' performing an underway replenishment with ''Iowa''.]]
The destroyer next operated out of Roosevelt Roads and off St. Croix before returning to Norfolk at the end of August and becoming [[flagship]] for [[Destroyer Squadron 10]]. After then conducting underway training in the Virginia Capes area in September and October, ''Arthur W. Radford'' accompanied the recommissioned battleship {{USS|Iowa|BB-61|2}} to Roosevelt Roads. She later conducted gunfire support exercises off Vieques. Returning northward the destroyer took part in exercises off the coast of [[North Carolina]] before reaching to Norfolk on 20 November.<ref name=DANFS />
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Detaching the Coast Guardsmen at [[Nassau, Bahamas]], on 22 October at the commencement of the ship's port visit there, ''Arthur W. Radford'' sailed for Norfolk on 25 October, arriving two days later. As before, her stay in port proved brief, for she got underway on 3 November for the Bermuda operating area for exercises. One day out of Norfolk, she assisted {{USS|Preble|DDG-46|2}} in searching for a crewman who had been lost in the [[Cape Hatteras]] area.<ref name=DANFS />
[[File:USS ARTHUR W. RADFORD (DD-968) fires a Harpoon missile during an Operation Red Reef III.jpg|thumb|left|''Arthur W. Radford'' fires a Harpoon missile during operation Red Reef III, 1992.]]''Arthur W. Radford'' conducted her exercises, SHAREM 1-87, before returning to Norfolk on 16 November. With the exception of a period underway in the Virginia Capes operating area on 9 and 10 December, ''Arthur W. Radford'' spent the month of December in port in Norfolk.<ref name=DANFS /> In early 1987, the ship participated in a major FLEETEX and other exercises, and from 20 July to 10 December 1987, the ship took part in UNITAS XXVIII.<ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title= UNITAS XXVIII |year= 1987 |page= 3 }}</ref>
A [[vertical launching system]] (VLS) was installed in January 1990<ref name=Med94 /> during a major overhaul at [[Avondale Shipyard]]. On 26 September 1991, the ship departed for a six-month deployment to the Persian Gulf with the {{USS|Eisenhower|CVN-69|2}} battle group, returning 26 March 1992. It was her first deployment in five years.<ref>{{cite journal |url= https://www.fold3.com/image/1/306769262 |title= Homecoming |journal= Arthur W. Radford [Persian] Gulf 1991-92 |page= 93 |year= 1992 }}</ref>
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''Arthur W. Radford'' deployed to the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf 3 April to 1 October 2000.<ref>{{cite journal |url= https://www.fold3.com/image/1/306769467 |title=History |journal= Arthur W. Radford Cruisebook |year= 2000}}</ref>
''Arthur W. Radford'' was decommissioned 18 March 2003,<ref name=Decom /> then stricken from the [[Naval Vessel Register]] on 6 April 2004 and eventually assigned to the [[Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility]] at [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]. On 8 June 2010, the ex-''Arthur W. Radford'' was transferred to the State of [[Delaware]] for preparation for eventual sinking as an [[artificial reef]] onto the Del-Jersey-Land Inshore Reef site on a project
== Fate ==▼
▲''Arthur W. Radford'' was decommissioned 18 March 2003,<ref name=Decom /> then stricken from the [[Naval Vessel Register]] on 6 April 2004 and eventually assigned to the [[Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility]] at [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]. On 8 June 2010, the ex-''Arthur W. Radford'' was transferred to the State of [[Delaware]] for preparation for eventual sinking as an [[artificial reef]] onto the Del-Jersey-Land Inshore Reef site on a project lead by Captain Tim Mullane of The American Marine Group ({{coord|38|31|N|74|31|W |type:landmark_region:US_dim:70 km |display=inline,title |notes=<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.dnrec.delaware.gov/fw/Fisheries/Documents/2009-10%20Delaware%20reef%20guide.pdf | title= Delaware Reef Guide 2009–2010|publisher= Delaware Dept. of Natural Resources & Environmental Control (DNREC) |access-date= 13 August 2011 }}</ref>}}), about {{convert|30|nmi|km|abbr=on}} southeast of [[Cape May, New Jersey]], and northeast of [[Ocean City, Maryland]].<ref>{{Cite press release |title= Preparations for ex-USS Arthur W. Radford sinking under way |publisher= Delaware Department of Natural Resources And Environmental Control |date= 8 June 2010 |url= http://www.dnrec.delaware.gov/News/Pages/Preparations_begin_for_Radford_sinking.aspx |access-date= 13 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110817224545/http://www.dnrec.delaware.gov/News/Pages/Preparations_begin_for_Radford_sinking.aspx |archive-date= 17 August 2011}}</ref><ref name="scuttled" />
After being scuttled on 10 August 2011, the ship became part of the largest artificial reef on the
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File:USS Arthur W Radford (DD-968) in the Med 1983.jpg|USS ''Arthur W. Radford'' in the [[Mediterranean Sea]], 1983
File:USS ARTHUR W. RADFORD (DD 968) arrives at Crete.jpg|USS ''Arthur W. Radford'' arrives in [[Crete]] on 30 August 2002
File:A crewman and officer of the deck stand by on the brow of the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS ALBANY (SSN 753) following the vessel's commissioning ceremony. The destroyer USS - DPLA - c33da53e923dfe53be45f4963a481b79.jpeg|USS ''Arthur W. Radford'' behind [[USS Albany (SSN-753)|USS Albany]] on 7 April 1990
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== Awards ==
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== References ==
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* [http://navysite.de/dd/dd968.htm navysite.de: USS ''Arthur W. Radford'' (DD 968)] – includes a description of the AEM/SS mast
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