Cochrane (DDG 21) - Naval Cruise Book

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USS COCHRA E DDG-21 .ip I I TLIZ 9 Q . . -13. 1 8 'Jo ll 4 1 is 5 av ' 4 ZX CR I - .l ll - E-- w --.-- ,ii Q 2' '2 lv 1. Twin Screws 2. Twin Rudders 3. T-MK6 Fanfare Torpedo Countermeasures 4. MK-13, Tartar Missile Launcher 5. 5 !54 caliber, Dual Purpose Rapid Fire Gun 6. After Refueling Station 7. ANXSPG-51, Missle Fire Control Radar 8. Captain's GIG 9. ANXSPS-39, Three Dimensional Air Search Radar 18 - I7 10. Amidships Replenishment Station 11. ASROC Missile Launcher 12. ANXSPS-40, Air Search Radar 13. ANXSPS-10, Surface Search Radar 14. Pilot House 15. Forward Refueling Station 16. 5 f54 caliber, Dual Purpose Rapid Fire Gun 17. ANXSQQ-23, Sonar Domes 18. MK-32, Anti-Submarine Torpedo launcher COCI-IRA E HISTORY USS COCHRANE QDDG-213 HISTORY USS COCHRANE QDDG-21, was built by Puget Sound Bridge and Drydock Company and commissioned 24 March 1964, 31 months and 1,500,000 man hours after the laying of her keel. She is the twentieth guided missile destroyer of the Charles F. Adams Class, the seventh to employ the single arm tartar launcher, second to be fitted with bow mounted sonar, and one of four to receive the Navy Tactical Data System. She is the first ship in the Navy to bear the name of Vice Admiral Edward Lull Cochrane. Rear Admiral Cochrane was appointed chief of the bureau of ship's November 1, 1942, where he directed the Navy's shipbuilding and maintenance program during the remainder of World War II. During this time he was promoted to Vice Admiral. In November, 1946, he became Chief of Material Division in the office of the secretary of the Navy. He retired in November, 1947. Ton for ton, COCHRANE is one of the most capable warships on the high seas. She is capable of dealing with any threat - air, surface, or subsurface. She can use her sophisticated radars to detect targets, track them with her computerized tactical data system, then destroy enemy aircraft and missiles with her supersonic missiles or rapid fire guns. Her sonar, torpedoes, and anti-submarine rockets equip COCHRANE to fight submarine at extended ranges. She has the most modern communications and electronics installations. She is propelled by an automatic control high pressure turbine power which provides both speed and maneuverability. She spent countless hours off the coastlof Viet Nam in support of U.S. forces there. She has also steamed nearly 10,000 miles in support of recovery operations for NASA's manned space flight program. She has deployed nine times to the Western Pacific, once to the Southern Pacific and returned from her eleventh cruise, to the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans, in May, 1984. COCHRANE completed its fifth overhaul in June 1982. In September 1983, COCHRANE was called to the seventh fleet, where she is a unit of destroyer squadron fifteen. USS COCHRANE is forward deployed, operating out of Yokosuka, Japan, under the overseas family residency program.

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CCMMANDI Cr OFFICER DENNIS C. BLAIR CDR Blair graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1968. He served as operations officer on the USS BARNEY QDDG-65, deployed to the Mediterranean and Northern Europe, and as the executive officer on USS BERKELEY QDDG-15j, deploying to the Western Pacific. Ashore, CDR Blair has served on the staffs of the Chief of Naval Operations, the Secretary of the National Security Council Staff in the White House. CDR Blair holds a masters degree in Russian from Oxford University. His decorations include the Navy Achievement Medal, and the Defense Superior Services Medal. W'--. X xg'