USS Gravely (DDG-107)

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 Gravely (DDG -107 ) is a destroyer in the United States Navy and is one of the Arleigh Burke - class. Patron is Vice Admiral Samuel L. Gravely, the first African American to reach the rank Admiral.

History

DDG -107 was commissioned in 2002, the keel of the destroyer took place in November 2007. Shipyard Ingalls Shipbuilding is. The launch of the destroyer took place in March 2009. On 16 May 2009, Gravely was baptized godmother was Mrs. Alma Bernice Clark Gravely, the widow of Admiral. On November 20, 2010, Gravely in Wilmington, North Carolina was put into service.