_-_2.jpg) USS Chung-Hoon on 2 October 2013
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| History | |
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| Name | Chung-Hoon |
| Namesake | Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon |
| Awarded | 6 March 1998 |
| Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Northrop Grumman, Pascagoula, Mississippi[1] |
| Laid down | 14 January 2002 |
| Launched | 15 December 2002 |
| Sponsored by | Michelle Punana Chung-Hoon |
| Acquired | 22 March 2004 |
| Commissioned | 18 September 2004 |
| Homeport | Pearl Harbor |
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| Status | in active service |
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| Class and type | Arleigh Burke-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 9,200 tons |
| Length | 509 ft 6 in (155.30 m) |
| Beam | 66 ft (20 m) |
| Draft | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Propulsion | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW) |
| Speed | 30 kn (56 km/h) |
| Complement | 380 officers and enlisted |
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| Aircraft carried | 2 × MH-60R Seahawk helicopters |
USS Chung-Hoon (DDG-93) is an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis destroyer serving in the United States Navy (USN). Chung-Hoon was named in honor of Rear Admiral Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon (1910–1979), recipient of the Navy Cross and the Silver Star.
The contract to build her was awarded to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems on 6 March 1998, and her keel was laid down on 14 January 2002, at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Incorporated. She was launched on 11 January 2003, sponsored by Michelle Punana Chung-Hoon of Honolulu, Hawaii, Chung-Hoon's niece, and commissioned on 18 September 2004.[1]
She is part of the Pacific Fleet and homeported in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
- ^ a b Shapiro, Treena (19 December 2004). "USS Chung-Hoon Goes on Duty". Honolulu Advertiser. Honolulu, HI. Retrieved 24 October 2013.