USS Spruance (DD-963) was the lead ship of the Spruance-class of destroyers in the United States Navy. She was named for Admiral Raymond A. Spruance.
Spruance was built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula, Mississippi, and launched by Mrs. Raymond A. Spruance, Commander Raymond J. Harbrecht in command.[Spruance was the first of a highly successful class of anti-submarine warfare destroyers and the first gas turbine powered destroyer in the US Navy. Initially armed with an 8-cell NATO Sea Sparrow missile launcher for nominal air defense she received the VLS (Vertical Launch System) in the late 1980s; replacing the old Mk 16 ASROC launcher.
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