USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG-54)
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| Missing image USSCurtisWilburDDG-54.jpg USS Curtis Wilbur undergoing replenishment in the [Pacific Ocean. | |
| Career | 
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| Ordered: | 13 December 1988 |
| Laid down: | 12 March 1991 |
| Launched: | 16 May 1992 |
| Commissioned: | 19 March 1994 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Status: | Template:Active in service |
| Homeport: | Yokosuka, Japan |
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| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 8,315 tons |
| Length: | 505 ft (154 m) |
| Beam: | 66 ft (20.1 m) |
| Draft: | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW) |
| Speed: | 30+ knots (55+ km/h) |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 337 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 1 x 29 cell, 1 x 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 90 x RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles 1 x 5 in, |
| Aircraft: | 1 SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter can be embarked |
| Motto: | Prudens Potens Patria (Judicious Power for Country) |
USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG-54) is the fourth Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer. Built by Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, she was commissioned on 10 December 1994. Curtis Wilbur was named for Curtis D. Wilbur, the forty-third Secretary of the Navy.
As of 2005, Curtis Wilbur is homeported in Yokosuka, Japan.
External links
- Official USS Curtis Wilbur Web site (http://www.curtis-wilbur.navy.mil/)
- Unofficial site (http://navysite.de/dd/ddg54.htm)
References
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register.
| Arleigh Burke-class destroyer |
| Flight I ships: Arleigh Burke | Barry | John Paul Jones | Curtis Wilbur | Stout | John S. McCain | Mitscher | Laboon | Russell | Paul Hamilton | Ramage | Fitzgerald | Stethem | Carney | Benfold | Gonzalez | Cole | The Sullivans | Milius | Hopper | Ross |
| Flight II ships: Mahan | Decatur | McFaul | Donald Cook | Higgins | O'Kane | Porter |
| Flight IIA ships: 5"/54 variant: Oscar Austin | Roosevelt | 5"/62 variant: Winston S. Churchill | Lassen | Howard | Bulkeley | McCampbell | Shoup | Mason | Preble | Mustin | Chafee | Pinckney | Momsen | Chung-Hoon | Nitze | James E. Williams | Bainbridge | Halsey | Forrest Sherman | Farragut | Kidd | Gridley | Sampson | Truxtun | Sterett | Dewey |
| List of destroyers of the United States Navy List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy |