USS Winston S. Churchill

USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81), in 2008
History
United States
Name	Winston S. Churchill
Namesake	Winston S. Churchill
Ordered	6 January 1995
Builder	Bath Iron Works
Laid down	7 May 1998
Launched	17 April 1999
Commissioned	10 March 2001
Homeport	Mayport
Identification	MMSI number: 338821000 Callsign: NWSC Hull number: DDG-81
Motto	In war: Resolution; In peace: Good Will
Status	in active service
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General characteristics
Class and type	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement	9,496 long tons (9,648 t) (Full load)
Length	509.5 ft (155.3 m)
Beam	59 ft (18 m)
Draft	31 ft (9.4 m)
Installed power	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines 100,000 shp (75,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 × shafts
Speed	In excess of 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement	32 officers, 348 enlisted
Electronic warfare & decoys	AN/SLQ-32(V)3
Armament	Guns: 1 × 5-inch (127 mm)/62 mk 45 mod 4 (lightweight gun) 2 × 20 mm (0.8 in) Phalanx CIWS 2 × 25 mm (0.98 in) Mk 38 machine gun system 4 × 0.50 inches (12.7 mm) caliber guns Missiles: 1 × 32-cell, 1 × 64-cell (96 total cells) Mk 41 vertical launching system (VLS): RIM-66M surface-to-air missile RIM-156 surface-to-air missile RIM-174A standard ERAM RIM-161 anti-ballistic missile RIM-162 ESSM (quad-packed) BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile RUM-139 vertical launch ASROC Torpedoes: 2 × Mark 32 triple torpedo tubes: Mark 46 lightweight torpedo Mark 50 lightweight torpedo Mark 54 lightweight torpedo
Aircraft carried	2 × MH-60R Seahawk helicopters

USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She is named after Sir Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. This ship is the 31st destroyer of her class and the 18th ship of the class to be built at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. Construction began on 7 May 1998, and the vessel launched and christened on 17 April 1999. On 10 March 2001, she was commissioned during a ceremony at Town Point Park in Norfolk, Virginia.