Notes: USS HARRY W. HILL was the 24th SPRUANCE - class destroyer and the third ship of that class decommissioned. The destroyer was homeported in s:"San Diego, California".

Namesake: Harry W. Hill
Motto: Speed, Surprise, Success
Ordered: January 15, 1975
Keel Laid: January 3, 1977
Launched: August 10, 1978
Commissioned: November 17, 1979
Decommissioned: May 29, 1998
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding, West Bank, s:"Pascagoula", Miss.
Propulsion system: four General Electric LM 2500 gas turbine engines
Propellers: two
Blades on each Propeller: five
Length: 172 meters (564,3 feet)
Beam: 16.8 meters (55,1 feet)
Draft: 8.8 meters (28,9 feet)
Displacement: approx. 9,200 tons full load
Speed: 30+ knots
Aircraft: two s:"SH-60B Seahawk" (LAMPS 3)
Armament: two Mk 45 5-inch/54 caliber lightweight guns, two armored box launchers for s:"Tomahawk cruise missiles", Mk 46 torpedoes (two triple tube mounts), Harpoon missile launchers, one MK 29 Sea Sparrow launcher, two 20mm s:"Phalanx CIWS", one Mk 112
ASROC missile launcher
Aircraft carried: 2 x Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters
Crew: approx. 340
Decommissioned: 29/05/1998
Struck: 29/05/1998
Fate: Sunk as target, 15/07/2004