USS Chafee (DDG-90)

9200 tons

156 meters

20 meters

9.5 meters

32 officers, 350 teams

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

31 knots

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

The USS Chafee (DDG- 90) is a destroyer in the United States Navy and is one of the Arleigh Burke - class. It is named after the politician John Chafee.

History

The Chafee was given in 1998 in order and placed in 2001 at Bath Iron Works in Kiel. After a construction period of 18 months, the destroyer was launched from the dock. Godmothers were Chaffees widow Virginia and Diane Blair, wife of former Admiral Dennis C. Blair. In October 2003 the official commissioning ceremony at the United States Navy. The entire construction of the ship was accompanied by a team of Discovery Channel, the documentation Destroyer: Forged has turned into Steel. The ship is named after former Senator John Chafee, who died in 1999, and served as Navy at Guadalcanal. The Chafee is stationed at Pearl Harbor.

2004 drove the destroyer off the coast of Southern California exercises in the battle group led by the USS Nimitz (CVN -68). Then began on May 20, 2005, a six -month deployment with the Nimitz as part of the war against terrorism. On 1 June 2007, the Chafee shelled a Somali village in the region of Puntland, with its onboard guns. Destination was the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks on the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi.

In August, the destroyer was then part of the exercise Valiant Shield. With the Nimitz the Chafee moved in early 2008 in the western Pacific to replace that needed to Trockdock actually there propelled USS Kitty Hawk (CV -63 ). In April she dropped the battle group to the port visit to Hong Kong. In 2009, the Chafee at a CARAT exercise with the navies of Singapore and Malaysia in part, in August 2011, then at the Seattle Seafair. In February 2012, she was part of the U.S. forces in the Cobra Gold exercise off the coast of Thailand.