USS Mitscher (DDG-57)
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 USS Mitscher in the Atlantic Ocean. | |
| Career (US) | Image:Naval Jack of the United States.svg
<tr valign=top><td>Ordered:</td><td>13 December 1988</td></tr> |
|---|---|
| Laid down: | 12 February 1992 |
| Launched: | 7 May 1993
<tr valign=top><td>Commissioned:</td><td>10 December 1994</td></tr> |
| Status: | Active in service as of 2006.
<tr valign=top><td>Homeport:</td><td>Norfolk, Virginia</td></tr> |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | Light: approx. 6,794.38 tons Full: approx. 8,885.66 tons |
| Length: | 505 ft (153.9 m) |
| Beam: | 66 ft (20.1 m)
<tr valign=top><td>Draught:</td><td>31 ft (9.4 m)</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Propulsion:</td><td>4 General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, two shafts, 100,000 total shaft horsepower (75 MW)</td></tr> |
| Speed: | 30+ knots (56+ km/h)
<tr valign=top><td>Range:</td><td>4,400 nautical miles at 20 knots |
| Complement: | 23 officers, 300 enlisted
<tr valign=top><td>Armament:</td><td>1 × 32 cell, 1 × 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems with 90 × RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc missiles |
USS Mitscher (DDG 57) became the second U.S. Navy warship named to honor Admiral Marc A. Mitscher (1887-1947), famed naval aviator and World War II aircraft carrier task group commander. In 1988 the U.S. Navy contracted with Ingalls Shipbuilding, in Pascagoula, Mississippi to build the seventh ship of the Arleigh Burke class.
USS Mitscher was commissioned on 10 December 1994, and was sponsored by Mrs. Elizabeth Ferguson. Mitscher transferred to her homeport in Norfolk, Virginia later in December 1994, and has since made three Mediterranean deployments and participated in many Caribbean exercises.
In 2001, USS Mitscher deployed with the carrier battle group centered around the USS Harry S. Truman. During this deployment, Mitscher visited Algiers, Algeria and conducted joint training excerises with the Algerian Navy.
See USS Mitscher for other ships of this name.
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This article includes information collected from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships and 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 | Stockdale | Gravely | Wayne E. Meyer |
| List of destroyers of the United States Navy List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy |
