Guided Missile Destroyers
The guided missile destroyer sequence has three irregularities: four DDGs are numbered as if they were Destroyers in the main sequence (DDG-993, -994, -995 and -996), two were redesignated as guided missile cruisers (CG) (DDG-47 and DDG-48), and two numbers were skipped (DDG-49 and DDG-50). The Zumwalt class picks up at DDG-1000.
- (DDG-1) Gyatt
- (DDG-2) Charles F. Adams
- (DDG-3) John King
- (DDG-4) Lawrence
- (DDG-5) Biddle/Claude V. Rickets
- (DDG-6) Barney
- (DDG-7) Henry B. Wilson
- (DDG-8) Lynde McCormick
- (DDG-9) Towers
- (DDG-10) Sampson
- (DDG-11) Sellers
- (DDG-12) Robison
- (DDG-13) Hoel
- (DDG-14) Buchanan
- (DDG-15) Berkeley
- (DDG-16) Joseph Strauss
- (DDG-17) Conyngham
- (DDG-18) Semmes
- (DDG-19) Tattnall
- (DDG-20) Goldsborough
- (DDG-21) Cochrane
- (DDG-22) Benjamin Stoddert
- (DDG-23) Richard E. Byrd
- (DDG-24) Waddell
- Hull number DDG-25 used for HMAS Perth
- Hull number DDG-26 used for HMAS Hobart
- Hull number DDG-27 used for HMAS Brisbane
- Hull number DDG-28 used for D185 Lütjens
- Hull number DDG-29 used for D186 Mölders
- Hull number DDG-30 used for D187 Rommel
- (DDG-31) Decatur
- (DDG-32) John Paul Jones
- (DDG-33) Parsons
- (DDG-34) Somers
- (DDG-35) Mitscher
- (DDG-36) John S. McCain
- (DDG-37) Farragut
- (DDG-38) Luce
- (DDG-39) Macdonough
- (DDG-40) Coontz
- (DDG-41) King
- (DDG-42) Mahan
- (DDG-43) Dahlgren
- (DDG-44) William V. Pratt
- (DDG-45) Dewey
- (DDG-46) Preble
- DDG-47 became USS Ticonderoga (CG-47), shifted to CG 1 Jan 1980
- DDG-48 became USS Yorktown (CG-48), shifted to CG 1 Jan 1980
- DDG-49 would have been USS Vincennes, shifted to CG 1 Jan 1980
- DDG-50 would have been USS Valley Forge, shifted to CG 1 Jan 1980
- (DDG-51) Arleigh Burke
- (DDG-52) Barry
- (DDG-53) John Paul Jones
- (DDG-54) Curtis Wilbur
- (DDG-55) Stout
- (DDG-56) John S. McCain
- (DDG-57) Mitscher
- (DDG-58) Laboon
- (DDG-59) Russell
- (DDG-60) Paul Hamilton
- (DDG-61) Ramage
- (DDG-62) Fitzgerald
- (DDG-63) Stethem
- (DDG-64) Carney
- (DDG-65) Benfold
- (DDG-66) Gonzalez
- (DDG-67) Cole
- (DDG-68) The Sullivans
- (DDG-69) Milius
- (DDG-70) Hopper
- (DDG-71) Ross
- (DDG-72) Mahan
- (DDG-73) Decatur
- (DDG-74) McFaul
- (DDG-75) Donald Cook
- (DDG-76) Higgins
- (DDG-77) O'Kane
- (DDG-78) Porter
- (DDG-79) Oscar Austin
- (DDG-80) Roosevelt
- (DDG-81) Winston Churchill
- (DDG-82) Lassen
- (DDG-83) Howard
- (DDG-84) Bulkeley
- (DDG-85) McCampbell
- (DDG-86) Shoup
- (DDG-87) Mason
- (DDG-88) Preble
- (DDG-89) Mustin
- (DDG-90) Chafee
- (DDG-91) Pinckney
- (DDG-92) Momsen
- (DDG-93) Chung-Hoon
- (DDG-94) Nitze
- (DDG-95) James E. Williams
- (DDG-96) Bainbridge
- (DDG-97) Halsey
- (DDG-98) Forrest Sherman
- (DDG-99) Farragut
- (DDG-100) Kidd
- (DDG-101) Gridley
- (DDG-102) Sampson
- (DDG-103) Truxtun
- (DDG-104) Sterett
- (DDG-105) Dewey
- (DDG-106) Stockdale
- (DDG-107) Gravely
- (DDG-108) Wayne E. Meyer
- (DDD-109) Jason Dunham
- (DDG-110) William P. Lawrence
- (DDG-111) Spruance
- (DDG-112) Michael Murphy
- (DDG-113) John Finn
- (DDG-114) Ralph Johnson
- (DDG-115) Rafael Peralta
- (DDG-116) Thomas Hudner
- (DDG-1000) Zumwalt
- (DDG-1001) Michael Monsoor
- (DDG-1002) Lyndon B. Johnson
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