German destroyer Rommel

	Rommel on exercise in the Atlantic in 1986
History
Germany
Name	Rommel
Namesake	Erwin Rommel
Builder	Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
Laid down	22 August 1967
Launched	1 February 1969
Commissioned	2 May 1970
Decommissioned	30 September 1998
Stricken	30 June 1999
Homeport	Kiel
Fate	Scrapped, 2004
General characteristics
Class & type	Lütjens-class destroyer
Displacement	4,460 t (4,390 long tons)
Length	134 m (440 ft)
Beam	14 m (46 ft)
Draft	6.4 m (21 ft)
Propulsion	4 × high pressure superheated steam boilers; 2 × turbines; 70,000 PS (51,000 kW);
Speed	33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Complement	337 officers and men
Armament	2 × 127 mm/54 Mk 42 mod 10 guns; 2 × Rheinmetall Mk 20 RH-202 20 mm autocannons; 1 × Mk 13 launcher, 40 Tartar surface-to-air missiles; 6 × Mk 32 324 mm (13 in) torpedo tubes, torpedoes; 1 × ASROC launcher, 8 cell;

The German destroyer D187 Rommel was one of three Lütjens-class guided-missile destroyers, a modified version of the American Charles F. Adams class, built for the Bundesmarine (West German Navy) during the 1960s.

History
Rommel on exercise in the Atlantic in 1986
Germany
Name	Rommel
Namesake	Erwin Rommel
Builder	Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
Laid down	22 August 1967
Launched	1 February 1969
Commissioned	2 May 1970
Decommissioned	30 September 1998
Stricken	30 June 1999
Homeport	Kiel
Fate	Scrapped, 2004
General characteristics
Class & type	Lütjens-class destroyer
Displacement	4,460 t (4,390 long tons)
Length	134 m (440 ft)
Beam	14 m (46 ft)
Draft	6.4 m (21 ft)
Propulsion	4 × high pressure superheated steam boilers 2 × turbines 70,000 PS (51,000 kW)
Speed	33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Complement	337 officers and men
Armament	2 × 127 mm/54 Mk 42 mod 10 guns 2 × Rheinmetall Mk 20 RH-202 20 mm autocannons 1 × Mk 13 launcher, 40 Tartar surface-to-air missiles 6 × Mk 32 324 mm (13 in) torpedo tubes, torpedoes 1 × ASROC launcher, 8 cell