USS Chafee (DDG-90)
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 USS Chafee pulls into her new homeport of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. | |
| Career | Image:Naval Jack of the United States.svg |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | 6 March 1998 |
| Laid down: | 12 April 2001 |
| Launched: | 2 November 2002 |
| Commissioned: | 18 October 2003 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Status: | Active in service as of 2006. |
| Struck: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 9,200 tons |
| Length: | 509 ft 6 in (155.3 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: | 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 5/62 in (127/62 mm), 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 in United States Navy.
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.
The construction of USS Chafee and USS Momsen, from initial steelcutting to sea trials, was documented in the Discovery Channel television special "Destroyer: Forged in Steel". The destroyers were not referenced by name, but their numbers were visible on their prows.
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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.
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| 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 |
