USS Hopper (DDG-70)
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| Career | 
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| Ordered: | 8 April 1992 |
| Laid down: | 23 February 1995 |
| Launched: | 6 January 1996 |
| Commissioned: | 6 September 1997 |
| Status: | Template:Active in service |
| Homeport: | Pearl Harbor |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 6750 tons light, 8873 tons full, 2123 tons dead |
| Length: | 153.9 m (505 ft) overall, 142 m (466 ft) waterline |
| Beam: | 20.1 m (66 ft) extreme, 17.9 m (59 ft) waterline |
| Draft: | 9.7 m (32 ft) maximum, 6.7 m (22 ft) limit |
| Complement: | 23 officers, 24 chiefs, 302 junior enlisted |
| Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW) |
| Speed: | 30+ knots |
| Range: | |
| 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, 2 x 25 mm, 4 x 12.7 mm guns, 2 x Phalanx CIWS 2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes |
| Aircraft: | 1 SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter can be embarked |
| Motto: | Aude Et Effice - "Dare And Do" |
USS Hopper (DDG-70), an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Admiral Grace Hopper. The contract to build her was awarded to Bath Iron Works Corporation in Bath, Maine on 8 April 1992 and her keel was laid down on 23 February 1995. She was launched on 6 January 1996 sponsored by Mrs. Mary Murray Westcote, sister of the ship's namesake, and commissioned on 6 September 1997, with Commander Thomas D. Crowley in command.
Hopper is the first warship since World War II, and only the second warship in Naval history, to be named for a woman from the Navy's own ranks.
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 |