German destroyer Lütjens (D185)

Name:	Lütjens (D185)
Namesake:	Admiral Günther Lütjens
Builder:	Bath Iron Works
Yard number:	DDG-28
Laid down:	March 1, 1966
Launched:	August 11, 1967
Commissioned:	February 23, 1969
Decommissioned:	December 18, 2003
Homeport:	Kiel
Identification:	D185
Fate:	to be sold as target ship to the USA
General characteristics
Class and type:	Lütjens-class destroyer
Displacement:	4720 t
Length:	133.2 m
Beam:	14.3 m
Draft:	6.1 m
Propulsion:	2 × steam turbines providing 70,000 shp (52 MW); 2 shafts; 4 x 1,275 psi (8,790 kPa) boilers
Speed:	33 knots (61 km/h)
Range:	4,500 nautical miles (8,300 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h)
Complement:	337
Sensors and; processing systems:	AN/SPS-40 2D air surveillance and early-warning radar, long-range; AN/SPS-67 sea surveillance radar, med-range; AN/SPS-52 3D air surveillance radar, long-range; 2 x AN/SPG-51C Mk 74 fire-control radar; AN/SPQ-9 short range fire-control radar for surface and low flying targets; SPG-60 tracking and fire control radar (also radar illumination for the missiles); Raytheon RP 1225 navigation radar; Atlas Elektronik DSQS-21B active/passive sonar; EADS FL1800 ESM suite;
Electronic warfare; and decoys:	2 x SRBOC 6 cell chaff and flare launcher; 1 x SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy; 1 x EADS FL1800 ESM/ECM suite;
Armament:	2 x 127 mm/54 Mk 42 mod 10 guns; 2 x Rheinmetall Rh202 20 mm autocannons; 1 x Modified Mark 13 launcher; SM-1MR surface to air missile (usually 32); Harpoon anti-ship missile (usually 8); 2 x Mk 49 launcher, 21 RAM surface to air missiles each; 6 x 324 mm torpedo tubes, DM4A1 and Mark 46 torpedoes; 1 x ASROC launcher, 8 cell;

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D185 Lütjens was a guided missile destroyer of the Bundesmarine (West German Navy) and later the Deutsche Marine (Navy of reunited Germany). It was the lead ship of the Lütjens class, a modification of the Charles F. Adams class. The ship was named for Admiral Günther Lütjens, who commanded the battlegroup Bismarck and Prinz Eugen during Operation Rheinübung (Exercise Rhine). Lütjens was killed when Bismarck was surrounded by overwhelming British naval force on 27 May 1941 in the North Atlantic.

The ship was laid down at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine on 1 March 1966 with the hull classification symbol DDG-28. She was launched on 11 August 1967 and commissioned on 23 February 1969.

After over 30 years of service and a traveled distance of 800,000 nautical miles Lütjens was decommissioned on 18 December 2003. She was the last steam-powered vessel of the German Navy as well as the last ship classified as a destroyer.