USS Nitze (DDG-94)
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| Ordered: | 6 March 1998 |
| Laid down: | 20 September 2002 |
| Launched: | 3 April 2004 |
| Commissioned: | 5 March 2005 |
| Status: | Active As of 2005 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 6600 tons light, 9200 tons full, 2600 tons dead |
| Length: | 155.7 meters (511 feet) overall, 143.5 meters (471 feet) waterline |
| Beam: | 20.1 meters (66 feet) extreme, 17.9 meters (59 feet) waterline |
| Draft: | 10 meters (33 feet) maximum, 6.7 meters (22 feet) limit |
| Propulsion: | four General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, two shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW) |
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| Range: | range |
| Complement: | 32 officers, 348 men |
| Armament: | one 32-cell, one 64-cell Mark 41 vertical launch systems, 96 RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles one five-inch gun, two 25 mm, four 12.7 mm guns two Mark 46 triple torpedo tubes |
| Aircraft: | two SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters |
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USS Nitze (DDG-94), a Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Paul H. Nitze, the former Secretary of the Navy and chief arms control adviser in the administration of President of the United States Ronald Reagan. The contract to build her was awarded to Bath Iron Works Corporation in Bath, Maine on 6 March 1998 and her keel was laid down on 20 September 2002. She was launched on 3 April 2004 sponsored by Elisabeth "Leezee" Porter, Nitze's wife. Nitze, 97 years old, was present at the christening, thus adding the destroyer to the rapidly growing list of military vessels named after living Americans. Nitze was commissioned on 5 March 2005, with Commander Michael A. Hegarty in command.
See USS Nitze for other ships of the same name.
External Links
USS Nitze’s Web site (http://www.cnsl.spear.navy.mil/ships/nitze/)
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 |