USS Chung-Hoon (DDG-93) - USS Chung-Hoon (DDG-93) USS Chung-Hoon (DDG-93) is an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis destroyer, named in honor of Rear Admiral Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon (1910-1979), recipient of the Navy Cross for his courageous leadership after a devastating kamikaze attack in 1945 left several of his crew dead and his ship, USS Sigsbee (DD-502), severely crippled. The contract to build her was awarded to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems on March 6, 1998, and her keel was laid down on January 14, 2002, at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Incorporated. She was launched on January 11, 2003, sponsored by Michelle Punana Chung-Hoon, of Honolulu, Hawaii, Gordon Chung-Hoon's niece, and will be commissioned in 2004. General Characteristics Length: 511 feet overall, 471 feet waterline Beam: 66 feet extreme, 59 feet waterline Draft: 33 feet maximum,.
Arleigh Burke class destroyer - 30 knots Aircraft: None. LAMPS III electronics installed on landing deck for coordinated DDG-51/helo ASW operations Complement: 23 officers, 300 enlisted Armament: Standard missile; AGM-84 Harpoon; Vertical Launch ASROC (VLA) missiles; Tomahawk missiles; six Mk-46 torpedoes (from two triple tube mounts); one five-inch/54-caliber Mk-45 (lightweight gun); two 20mm Phalanx CIWS Date Deployed: 4 July, 1991 (USS Arleigh Burke) Ships USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) USS Barry (DDG-52) USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53) USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG-54) USS Stout (DDG-55) USS John S. McCain (DDG-56) USS Mitscher (DDG-57) USS Laboon (DDG-58) USS Russell (DDG-59) USS Paul Hamilton (DDG-60) USS Ramage (DDG-61) USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) USS Stethem (DDG-63) USS Carney (DDG-64) USS Benfold (DDG-65) USS Gonzalez (DDG-66) USS Cole (DDG-67) USS The Sullivans (DDG-68) USS Milius (DDG-69) USS Hopper (DDG-70) USS Ross (DDG-71) USS.
List of ships of the United States Navy - line of the United States Navy list of sailing frigates of the United States Navy list of military vessels named after living Americans There is also a list of ships of the Japanese Navy. (This list cannot be sorted well by type, because the same name is used for ships of different types at different times. Add rest of destroyers and subs, but will need to break up list by letters.) A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Alphabetical list of ships A USS Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602, CVN-72) USS Adirondack (1860s, 1917, AGC-15) USS Agamenticus (1863) USS Admiralty Islands (CVE-99) USS Akron (ZRS-4) USS Alabama (1818, BB-8, BB-60, SSBN-731) USS Alaska (1860s,.
List of destroyers of the United States Navy - destroyers of the United States Navy, sorted by hull number. It includes all of the series DD, DL, DDG, DLG, and DLGN ships. (DD-1) Bainbridge (DD-2) Barry (DD-3) Chauncey (DD-4) Dale (DD-5) Decatur (DD-6) Hopkins (DD-7) Hull (DD-8) Lawrence (DD-9) Macdonough (DD-10) Paul Jones (DD-11) Perry (DD-12) Preble (DD-13) Stewart (DD-14) Truxtun (DD-15) Whipple (DD-16) Worden (DD-17) Smith (DD-18) Lamson (DD-19) Preston (DD-20) Flusser (DD-21) Reid (DD-22) Paulding (DD-23) Drayton (DD-24) Roe (DD-25) Terry (DD-26) Perkins (DD-27) Sterett (DD-28) McCall (DD-29) Burrows (DD-30) Warrington (DD-31) Mayrant (DD-32) Monaghan (DD-33) Trippe (DD-34) Walke (DD-35) Ammen (DD-36) Patterson (DD-37) Fanning (DD-38) Jarvis (DD-39) Henley (DD-40) Beale (DD-41) Jouett (DD-42) Jenktns (DD-43) Cassin (DD-44) Cummings (DD-45) Downes (DD-46) Duncan (DD-47) Aylwin (DD-48) Parker (DD-49) Benham (DD-50) Balch (DD-51) O'Vrien (DD-52) Nicholson (DD-53) Winslow (DD-54).
Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon - Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon (Honolulu, Hawaii, July 10, 1910 - July 1979), World War II veteran. He attended the U.S. Naval Academy and graduated in May 1934. He is a recipient of the Navy Cross and Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry and extraordinary heroism as commanding officer for USS Sigsbee (DD-502) from May 1944 to October 1945. In the spring of 1945, Sigsbee assisted in the destruction of 20 enemy planes while screening a carrier strike force off the Japanese island of Kyushu. On April 14, 1945, while on radar picket station off Okinawa, a kamikaze crashed into Sigsbee, reducing her starboard engine to five knots and knocking out the ship's port engine and steering control. Despite the damage, then-Commander Chung-Hoon valiantly kept his antiaircraft batteries delivering.
USS Irene Forsyte (IX-93) - USS Irene Forsyte (IX-93) USS Irene Forsyte (IX-93) was a Q-ship of the United States Navy. The three-masted schooner McLean Clan was laid down in 1920 by MacLean Construction Company, Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, and put into service in 1922. She participated in the coastal trade into the 1930s, when she was purchased by Captain Thomas Antle. Renamed Irene Myrtle, the schooner barely survived the tough trade conditions of that time and was in poor condition by the end of the decade. Given a new lease on life by the increased shipping traffic provoked by the war, she served in the coal trade between New England and Nova Scotia into 1942. That summer, while the ship was loading coal at New London, Connecticut, Captain Antle died.
USS Ramage (DDG-61) - USS Ramage (DDG-61) The USS Ramage (DDG-61) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Vice Admiral Lawson P. Ramage, a notable submarine commander in World War II. Ramage was laid down 4 January 1993 at the Bath Iron Works in Maine, launched 11 February 1994, sponsored by Barbara Ramage (wife of the admiral), and commissioned 22 July 1995. On 21 July 1997, Ramage was an escort of the USS Constitution when she set sail in Massachusetts Bay..
USS Decatur (DDG-31) - USS Decatur (DDG-31) The USS Decatur (DDG-31), originally DD-936, is a United States Navy vessel originally built as a destroyer, then guided missile destroyer, and later decommissioned and converted to the Self Defense Test Ship..
USS Parsons (DDG-33) - USS Parsons (DDG-33) insert caption here (insert link to larger image here) Career Awarded: Laid down: 17 June 1957 Launched: 17 August 1959 Commissioned: 29 October 1959 Fate: sunk as a target Stricken: 1 December 1984 General Characteristics Displacement: 4000 tons Length: 418 feet Beam: 45 feet Draft: 20 feet Speed: 33 knots Complement: 256 officers and men Armament: three five-inch guns, six three-inch guns, ASROC, one depth charge track, two hedgehog depth change projectors, two 21-inch torpedo tubes USS Parsons (DD-949/DDG-33) began her career as Forrest Sherman-class destroyer. her keel was laid down 17 June 1957 by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation of Passagoula, Mississippi. She was launched on 17 August 1958 sponsored by Mrs. William S. Parsons, and commissioned 29 October 1959 at Charleston, South.
USS Charles F. Adams (DDG-2) - USS Charles F. Adams (DDG-2) USS Charles F. Adams (DDG-2), named for Charles Francis Adams (1866-1954), Secretary of the Navy from 1929 to 1933, was the lead ship of the class of guided missile armed destroyers laid down by the Bath Iron Works at Bath in Maine on 16 June 1958, launched on 8 September 1959 by Mrs. R. Homans, sister of Mr. Adams and commissioned on 10 September 1960. USS Charles F. Adams was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 20 November 1992 and held for donation at Philadelphia in Pennsylvania..
USS John King (DDG-3) - USS John King (DDG-3) Chief Watertender John King (1865-1938) twice awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on board USS Vicksburg and on 29 May 1901 and on board USS Salem on 3 September 1909. USS John King (DDG-3) was a Charles F. Adams class guided missile armed destroyer laid down by the Bath Iron Works at Bath in Maine on 25 August 1958, launched on 30 January 1960 by Mrs. Paul J. Kilday, wife of Representative Kilday of Texas and commissioned on 4 February 1961. John King participated in blockade duties during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. USS John King was decommissioned on 30 March 1990, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 12 January 1993 and sold for scrap on 10.
USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81) - USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81) The USS Winston Churchill (DDG-81) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer of the United States Navy homeported in Norfolk, Virginia. The contract to build Churchill was awarded to the Bath Iron Works Corporation on 6 January 1995, and the keel was laid down on 7 May 1998. Churchill was launched 17 April 1999, delivered 13 October 2000, and commissioned 10 March 2001. The launch and christening of the ship was co-sponsored by Lady Soames, the daughter of Sir Winston Churchill and Mrs. Janet Cohen, wife of the United States Secretary of Defense. USS Winston Churchill is the only active US Navy warship named after a foreign national, and is the first destroyer and only the fourth US warship named after an.
USS Cole (DDG-67) - USS Cole (DDG-67) The second USS Cole (DDG-67) is an Arleigh Burke-class "Aegis" guided missile destroyer homeported in Norfolk, Virginia. This Cole is named in honor of Marine Sergeant Darrell S. Cole, a machine gunner killed in action on Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945. She was built by Ingalls Shipbuilding and delivered to the Navy on 11 March 1996. On 12 October 2000, Cole was attacked from a small inflatable boat by suicide bombers. Seventeen sailors were killed and 39 were injured. The U.S. government offered a reward of up to US$5 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of those persons who committed or aided in the attack on the Cole. On 4 November 2002, Ali Qaed Sinan al-Harthi, who is believed.
USS Mustin (DDG-89) - USS Mustin (DDG-89) The second USS Mustin (DDG 89) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer named in honor of the Mustin family. The contract to build her was awarded to Ingalls Shipbuilding on 6 March 1998. Her keel was laid down on 15 January 2001, she was launched on 12 December 2001, and commissioned July 26, 2003. General Characteristics Overall Length: 511 feet Waterline Length: 471 feet Extreme Beam: 66 feet Waterline Beam: 59 feet Maximum Navigational Draft: 33 feet Draft Limit: 22 feet Light Displacement: 6600 tons Full Displacement: 8344 tons Dead Weight: 1744 tons Hull Material: Steel hull, steel superstructure. Number of Propellers: 2 Propulsion Type: Gas Turbines Accommodations: Officers: 32 Enlisted: 348 Armament: Missiles: Standard surface-to-air missiles and Tomahawk cruise missiles from.
USS Lynde McCormick (DDG-8) - USS Lynde McCormick (DDG-8) The USS Lynde McCormick (DDG-8) was an Adams-class destroyer in the United States Navy. Keel laid: 4 April 1958 Launched: 28 July 1959 Commissioned: 3 Jun 1961 Decommissioned: 1 October 1991 Stricken: 20 November 1992 Sold: 20 June 1994 Ship's Motto: Sine Timore (Without Fear).
USS Decatur (DDG-73) - USS Decatur (DDG-73) The USS Decatur (DDG-73) is a guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy. Decatur was involved in patrolling the Persian Gulf / Strait of Hormuz during December 2003. On 14 December she intercepted a dhow carrying about 1750Kg of marijuana, with an estimated street value of $8M to $10M US. US sources claimed that the drugs were being smuggled to raise funds for the operations of Al Quaeda, but have so far refused to release the evidence on which this claim is based. Other ships have been named USS Decatur. CNN report, Dec. 19.
USS Lawrence (DDG-4) - USS Lawrence (DDG-4) USS Lawrence (DDG-4), named for Captain James Lawrence USN (1781-1813), was a Charles F. Adams class guided missile armed destroyer laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden in New Jersey on 27 October 1958, launched on 27 February 1960 by Mrs. Fernie C. Hubbard, great-great-granddaughter of Captain James Lawrence and commissioned on 6 January 1962. Lawrence served on blockade duty during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. USS Lawrence was decommissioned on 30 March 1990, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 16 May 1990, and sold for scrap on 15 April 1994. The scrap contract was terminated on 1 October 1996 and resold on 10 February 1999..
USS Claude V. Ricketts (DDG-5) - USS Claude V. Ricketts (DDG-5) USS Claude V. Ricketts(DDG-5), originally Biddle and DD-955, was a Charles F. Adams-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy. Originally to be designated as DD-955, the ship was laid down as DDG-5 by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden, New Jersey on 18 May 1959, launched on 4 June 1960 and commissioned on 5 May 1962. Biddle was renamed to Claude V. Ricketts on 28 July 1964 in honor of Admiral Claude V. Ricketts, who had died on 6 July. Claude V. Ricketts was decommissioned on 31 October 1989, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 June 1990 and sold for scrap on 15 April 1994. The scrap contract was terminated on 1 October 1996 and the.
USS Somers - USS Somers Six ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Somers in honor of Master Commandant Richard Somers who was killed at Tripoli in action against the Barbary pirates. The first USS Somers was a schooner that fought under Commodore Ferry on Lake Erie and Lake Huron, and took part in the capture of the British Squadron on 10 September 1813. The second USS Somers was a brig launched by the New York Navy Yard on 16 April 1842 and commissioned on 12 May 1842, Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie in command. After a shakedown cruise in June and July to Puerto Rico and back, the new brig sailed out of New York harbor on 13 September 1842 bound for the Atlantic coast.
USS America (CV-66) - USS America (CV-66) (image here) Career Ordered: ?? Laid down: 1 January 1961 Launched: 1 February 1964 Commissioned: 23 January 1965 Decommissioned: 9 August 1996 Fate: inactive General Characteristics Displacement: 80,800 tons Length: 1047.5 ft ( m) Extreme Width: 249 ft ( m) Beam: 130 ft ( m) Draft: 35.7 ft ( m) Speed: 20+ knots Complement: 4,582 officers and enlisted Armament: Terrier missile launchers Aircraft: about 75 The third USS America (CV-66), originally CVA-66, was an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy that served from 1965 to 1996. She was laid down on 1 January 1961 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corp., launched on 1 February 1964, sponsored by Mrs. David L. McDonald, wife of Admiral David.
