USS Chafee on 7 June 2008
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Chafee |
Namesake | John Chafee |
Ordered | 6 March 1998 |
Builder | Bath Iron Works |
Laid down | 12 April 2001 |
Launched | 2 November 2002 |
Commissioned | 18 October 2003 |
Homeport | Naval Station San Diego |
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Motto | Commanding the Seas |
Honors and awards | See Awards |
Status | in active service |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Arleigh Burke-class destroyer |
Displacement | 9,200 long tons (9,300 t) |
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; 35 mph) |
Complement | 350 officers and enlisted |
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Aircraft carried | 2 × MH-60R Seahawk helicopters |
USS Chafee (DDG-90) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in United States Navy. She is named for Senator John Lester Hubbard Chafee (1922–1999), a Marine veteran of Guadalcanal who also served as the Secretary of the Navy. Chafee was laid down by the Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine on 12 April 2001, launched on 2 November 2002 and commissioned on 18 October 2003 in Newport, Rhode Island, the home state of the ship's namesake.[1]