USS Donald Cook

USS Donald Cook (DDG-75), on 23 May 2016
History
United States
NameDonald Cook
NamesakeDonald Cook
Ordered19 January 1993
BuilderBath Iron Works
Laid down9 July 1996
Launched3 May 1997
Acquired21 August 1998
Commissioned4 December 1998
HomeportMayport
Identification
MottoFaith Without Fear
Statusin active service
General characteristics
Class and typeArleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement8,637 long tons (8,776 t) (Full load)
Length505 ft (154 m)
Beam59 ft (18 m)
Draft31 ft (9.4 m)
Installed power
Propulsion2 × shafts
SpeedIn excess of 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range4,400 nmi (8,100 km; 5,100 mi) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement
Sensors and
processing systems
Electronic warfare
& decoys
Armament
Aircraft carried1 × Sikorsky MH-60R

USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy named for Medal of Honor recipient Donald Cook, a colonel in the United States Marine Corps. This ship is the 25th destroyer of her class and the 14th of the class to be built at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. Construction began on 9 July 1996, she was launched and christened on 3 May 1997, and on 4 December 1998, she was commissioned at Penn's Landing Pier in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

On 16 February 2012, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced Donald Cook was to be one of four ships to be homeported at Naval Station Rota, Spain.[4] In January 2014, the Navy announced that the ship would arrive there in mid-February 2014.[5] In Rota she forms part of Destroyer Squadron 60.

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