USS Chafee (DDG-90)
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| Missing image USSChafeeDDG-90.jpg USS Chafee pulls into her new homeport of , . USS Chafee pulls into her new homeport of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. | |
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| Ordered: | 6 March 1998 |
| Laid down: | 12 April 2001 |
| Launched: | 2 November 2002 |
| Commissioned: | 18 October 2003 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Status: | Template:Active in service |
| Struck: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 9,200 tons |
| Length: | 509 ft 6 in |
| Beam: | 66 ft |
| Draught: | 31 ft |
| Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW) |
| Speed: | 30+ knots |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 380 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 1 x 32 cell, 1 x 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 96 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 Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes |
| Aircraft: | 2 x SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters |
| Motto: | Commanding the Seas |
USS Chafee (DDG-90) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer serving in United States Navy as of 2005.
She is named for Senator John Lester Hubbard Chafee (1922-1999), a Marine veteran of Guadalcanal.
Chafee was laid down by the Bath Iron Works at Bath in Maine on 12 April 2001, launched on 2 November 2002 and commissioned on 18 October 2003. Chafee is an active unit of the Pacific Fleet and operates out of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
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The crest of USS Chafee.
References
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register.
External link
- Offical Ship's site (http://www.chafee.navy.mil/)
| 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 |