USS Mason (DDG-87)
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| Career | Image:Naval Jack of the United States.svg |
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| Ordered: | 13 December 1996 |
| Laid down: | 20 January 2000 |
| Launched: | 23 June 2001 |
| Commissioned: | 12 April 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: | Proudly We Serve |
USS Mason (DDG-87) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy.
Homeported in Norfolk, Virginia, Mason is the 37th Arleigh Burke class Destroyer and the 9th of the Flight IIA variant. Mason is one of the most capable and technologically advanced destroyers ever constructed by any navy. She was commissioned in Cape Canaveral, Florida in April of 2003. Her first Captain was Commander David Gale.
USS Mason is named in honor of two previous ships of that name. The first Mason (DD-191), in service from 1920 to 1941, was named for John Young Mason, well known for his service as Secretary of the Navy for two US Presidents. The second USS Mason (DE-529) was named for Ensign Newton Henry Mason, a naval aviator and posthumous Distinguished Flying Cross awardee.
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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 |
