USS Dewey (DDG-105)

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 Dewey (DDG -105 ) is a destroyer in the United States Navy and is one of the Arleigh Burke - class. It is named after Admiral George Dewey, the only person who has ever reached the rank Admiral of the Navy. Dewey is known for its role during the Battle of Manila Bay in the Spanish -American War.

History

The construction of the destroyer was commissioned in 2002, Shipyard Ingalls Shipbuilding was. The keel of DDG -105 was laid on 4 October 2006, 26 January 2008, the ship was launched and was baptized. Godmother for Dewey was Deborah M. Mullen, the wife of Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. On the baptism follows the final finishing at the pier, then the shipyard sea trials. In August 2009, the Navy took off the ship, the commissioning took place in Seal Beach, California on March 6, 2010.

The end of 2011 began the first voyage of the use Dewey: On the USS John C. Stennis page (CVN -74 ) led them to the destroyer in the Indian Ocean and the beginning of 2012 in the Pacific.