USS Coontz (DLG-9/DDG-40) was a Farragut-class destroyer leader/frigate in the United States Navy. She was named after Admiral Robert Coontz, the US Navy's...

Robert Edward Coontz (June 11, 1864 – January 26, 1935) was an American naval officer who sailed with the "Great White Fleet" and served as the second...

the USS Independence CV-62 task force including the USS Richmond K. Turner CG-20, USS Coontz DDG-40, USS Caron DD-970, USS Moosbrugger DD-980, USS Clifton...

operations: USS Kidd, USS Aquila, USS Aubrey Fitch, USS Briscoe, USS Nicholson, USS Portsmouth, USS Recovery, USS Saipan, USS Sampson, USS Samuel Eliot...

class (USS Macdonough, USS Coontz, USS Preble) Kidd class (USS Kidd) Frigates Knox class (USS Marvin Shields, USS Francis Hammond, USS Vreeland, USS Thomas...

command. Dewey was the ninth Farragut-class destroyer (also known as the Coontz class). Commander Zumwalt later, in 1970, became the youngest man to serve...

Farragut class is sometimes referred to as Coontz-class, because the fourth ship of the class—USS Coontz, designed ordered as a guided missile destroyer...

USS Dewey (DDG-105), USS Ralph Johnson (DDG-114), USS Rafael Peralta (DDG-115). Destroyer Squadron 17 (Pacific): flagship USS Coontz (DDG-40) in 1962. With Cruiser-Destroyer...

Admiral David Farragut. The class is sometimes referred to as the Coontz class, since Coontz was first to be designed and built as a guided-missile ship (under...

for assignment in command of USS Coontz (DDG-40). Taking up his first command in September 1981, he remained in USS Coontz (DDG-40), until December 1982...