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USS Hewitt fires a Sea Sparrow on 23 March 2000
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History | |
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Name | Hewitt |
Namesake | H. Kent Hewitt |
Ordered | 1 January 1971[1] |
Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
Laid down | 23 July 1973[1] |
Launched | 24 August 1974[1] |
Acquired | 1 September 1976[1] |
Commissioned | 25 September 1976[1] |
Decommissioned | 19 July 2001[1] |
Stricken | 5 June 2002[1] |
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Motto | Be Just and Fear Not |
Fate | Scrapped, 9 August 2001 |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Spruance-class destroyer |
Displacement | 8,040 (long) tons full load |
Length | 529 ft (161 m) waterline; 563 ft (172 m) overall |
Beam | 55 ft (16.8 m) |
Draft | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
Propulsion | 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 80,000 shp (60 MW) |
Speed | 32.5 knots (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph) |
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Complement | 19 officers, 315 enlisted |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Electronic warfare & decoys |
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Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 2 × Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters. |
Aviation facilities | Flight deck and enclosed hangar for up to two medium-lift helicopters |
USS Hewitt (DD-966), named for Admiral H. Kent Hewitt USN (1887–1972), was a Spruance-class destroyer built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula, Mississippi and launched on 14 September 1974 by Mrs. Leroy Hewitt Taylor and Mrs. Gerald Hewitt Norton, daughters of Admiral Hewitt.