USS Nicholson  - Spruance Class Destroyer     
United States Navy
USS Nicholson (DD-982) 
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Length: 563 feet   
Beam: 55 feet   
Draft: 29 feet   
Speed: 33 knots   
Displacement:  9,100 tonnes   
Crew: 382   
Propulsion: 4 GE LM2500 gas turbines, contributing a total of 82,000 shaft
horsepower on two shafts with a controllable reversible pitch propellers
Armament: 1 61 cell VLS (61 VLA & Tomahawk), 8 Harpoon SSM, 1 8-cell Sea Sparrow (24 missiles, manual reload), 2 5/54 DP, 2 20 mm Phalanx CIWS, 2
triple 12.75 inch torpedo tubes, 2 25 mm Bushmaster, 4 12.7 mm MG   
Commissioned: May 12, 1979  
Home Port: Mayport, Florida
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