USS Carney (DDG-64)

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 Carney ( DDG- 64) is a destroyer of the Arleigh Burke-class. The United States Navy named after Admiral Robert Carney, the ship that was under President Eisenhower 's Chief of Naval Operations.

History

The United States Navy was DDG -64 in 1991 in order. In August 1993, the destroyer was laid at Bath Iron Works in Kiel and launched in July of the following year from the stack. Godmother of the ship was Betty Tausig, the daughter of Admiral. Official commissioning ceremony was on 13 April 1996.

Her first voyage started in Carney 1997/1998 with the carrier USS George Washington ( CVN -73) by, 1999, she moved to exercises in the Mediterranean. In 2002, she led exercises off Puerto Rico, her partner was the USS John F. Kennedy (CV -67). in the same year took the Carney participated in the Operation Enduring Freedom. Meanwhile, on June 10, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld arrived in Manama, Bahrain on board.

In 2006, the destroyer in the exercises UNITAS and PANAMAX part, then in 2007 to a transfer in the context of Maritime Security Operations as escorts the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN -75). Beginning of 2010 was the Carney from where the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN -69) page. The aim of the trip is the Middle East, where the battle group supported the U.S. forces in Iraq and the fight against pirates off Somalia. In summer 2011, the destroyer went three months in the Mediterranean.