USS Benfold (DDG-65)

8315 tons

154 m

20 meters

9.5 meters

26 officers, 315 teams

Two propellers, each driven over 4 gas turbines; 100,000 shaft horsepower

31 knots

90 VLS cells, 2 triple torpedo launchers, 1 artillery 127 mm

The USS Benfold (DDG -65 ) is a destroyer in the United States Navy and is one of the Arleigh Burke - class. It is named after Edward Clyde Benfold, a medic in the U.S. Navy, the Medal of Honor for his actions got in the Korean War.

History

The United States Navy announced the Benfold 1991 Ingalls Shipbuilding in order. This shipyard laid the keel in September 1993, the launching ceremony was held construction after 13.5 months instead. On 30 March, the destroyer was finally put into service with the Navy.

End of 1997 the Benfold was in the Persian Gulf, where they should put through the UN sanctions against Iraq. For this was searched the charge of suspicious vessels, among others, and, where appropriate, seized.

After the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004, the U.S. launch the Operation Unified Assistance, which coordinated the rescue and relief of the U.S. armed forces. Here, the Benfold was involved. In May 2008, the destroyer moved to the side of the USS Peleliu (LHA -5) in the Western Pacific. From 28 June to 2 July, the Benfold from the Persian Gulf took out with her sister ship USS Russell ( DDG -59 ), which sailed in the Mediterranean, in a communication test as part of the National Missile Defense part. In summer 2010, the destroyer took part in the multinational exercise RIMPAC.