USS Laboon (DDG-58)

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 Laboon (DDG -58 ) is a destroyer of the Arleigh Burke-class in the fleet of the United States Navy. It is named after the Navy - priest John Francis Laboon Jr..

History

The Laboon was commissioned in 1988 in order. On March 23, 1992, the keel was laid at Bath Iron Works, at the end of February 1993, the ship ran off the stack. The official commissioning ceremony at the Navy took place 1995.

1996 moved the Laboon as part of the battle group to the USS Carl Vinson (CVN -70) in the Persian Gulf, where they (CG -67) USS Shiloh fired with the first cruise missiles during Operation Desert Strike. With Lieutenant Erica Meier from the USS Laboon low- fired in 1996 also became the first woman in the U.S. Navy several Tomahawk cruise missiles at war from.

2000 Laboon part of the battle group to the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN -69) was assigned, in 2002 she participated in Operation Enduring Freedom, this time as an escort for USS George Washington ( CVN -73). The Laboon 2007 was part of the exercise FRUKUS, a common practice of the navies of France, Russia, Great Britain and the United States. In early 2009 moved the ship into the Mediterranean, where it took the two Standing NATO Maritime Group. Also in August 2010, the Laboon moved into the Mediterranean and further into the Indian Ocean to combat piracy there.

After a Attentant on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi in Libya on 12 September 2012, in which the four diplomats and the responsible U.S. ambassador to Libya were killed John Christopher Stevens, the Laboon along with the USS McFaul, another destroyer Arleigh was Burke - class, according to government figures, laid without a specific application command before the Libyan coast.