USS Benfold (DDG-65)
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 A Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (RHIB) passes in front of Benfold in the northern Persian Gulf | |
| Career | Image:Naval Jack of the United States.svg |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | 16 January 1991 |
| Laid down: | 27 September 1993 |
| Launched: | 9 November 1994 |
| Commissioned: | 30 March 1996 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Status: | Active in service as of 2006. |
| Struck: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 8,315 tons |
| Length: | 505 ft (153.9 m) |
| Beam: | 66 ft (20.1 m) |
| Draught: | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW) |
| Speed: | 30+ knots |
| 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 5/54 in (127/54 mm), 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: | Onward with Valor |
The first USS Benfold (DDG-65) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was named for HM3 Edward Clyde Benfold.
She joined the Pacific Fleet for duty on 30 March 1996. Built by Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation in Pascagoula, Mississippi, Benfold is the 15th of 35 planned Arleigh Burke -Class Guided Missile Destroyers.
Cmdr. Michael Abrashoff, Benfold's commanding officer from 1997-1999, wrote the bestselling book It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy (Warner Business Books 2002), based upon his experiences aboard the warship.
In January 2005, she participated in Operation Unified Assistance.
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This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a US government publication, is in the public domain.
| 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 | Stockdale | Gravely | Wayne E. Meyer |
| List of destroyers of the United States Navy List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy |
