Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p USS Fife (DD-991), a Spruance-class destroyer, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Admiral James Fife, Jr. (1897–1975), a distinguished Submarine Force commander during World War II.Fife was laid down on 6 March 1978 by Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi; launched on 1 May 1979; and commissioned on 31 May 1980, Commander John Y. Schrader, Jr. in command.Fife was decommissioned 28 February 2003, and stricken from the Navy List 6 April 2004. USS Fife was the 29th of the 30 Spruance-class destroyers. Between 27 June and 11 July 2002, Fife was the U.S. Task Group flagship for the Pacific Phase of the annual UNITAS exercise conducted with naval forces from five nations off the coast of Chile. The ship's five-month deployment to the Eastern Pacific Ocean for Counter-Drug Operations and the UNITAS exercise was the final deployment for the destroyer.Last homeported in Everett, Wash., under the command of CDR Frank Ponds, Fife was stricken from the Navy list on 6 April 2004, and sunk as a target during a live-fire exercise on 23 August 2005 by USS Russell (DDG-59).. }
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- USS_Fife_(DD-991) abstract "USS Fife (DD-991), a Spruance-class destroyer, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Admiral James Fife, Jr. (1897–1975), a distinguished Submarine Force commander during World War II.Fife was laid down on 6 March 1978 by Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi; launched on 1 May 1979; and commissioned on 31 May 1980, Commander John Y. Schrader, Jr. in command.Fife was decommissioned 28 February 2003, and stricken from the Navy List 6 April 2004. USS Fife was the 29th of the 30 Spruance-class destroyers. Between 27 June and 11 July 2002, Fife was the U.S. Task Group flagship for the Pacific Phase of the annual UNITAS exercise conducted with naval forces from five nations off the coast of Chile. The ship's five-month deployment to the Eastern Pacific Ocean for Counter-Drug Operations and the UNITAS exercise was the final deployment for the destroyer.Last homeported in Everett, Wash., under the command of CDR Frank Ponds, Fife was stricken from the Navy list on 6 April 2004, and sunk as a target during a live-fire exercise on 23 August 2005 by USS Russell (DDG-59).".