USS Porter (DDG-78)

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 Porter ( DDG -78 ) is an American destroyer Arleigh Burke - class. The United States Navy has named the ship after Commodore David Porter and his son, Admiral David Dixon Porter.

History

DDG -78 was ordered in 1994 and laid the end of 1996 at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Kiel. In November of the following year, the unit was able to walk from the stack. After the final outfitting and sea trials, the shipyard Porter could be put into service in March 1999. After a few more tests followed from August to November of the year Post Shakedown Availability in the shipyard of Ingalls.

In November 2000, Porter moved to her maiden voyage, as escorts for the equally new carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN -75). In 2003, the destroyer USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN -71 ) participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom. During this, the Porter was involved in Tomahawk kills on targets in Iraq. 2005/2006 the ship spent some time in the Mediterranean.

Followed in 2007 by an Expeditionary Strike Group deployment in the USS Kearsarge (LHD -3). During the trip, the Porter sank on October 29 off the coast of Somalia two skiffs, which were used by pirates to board a cargo ship. The destroyer responded to a distress call from the freighter, who was known as later, was loaded with highly flammable benzene. The hijacked ship, sailing under the flag of Panama Golden Mori, was then of Porter's sister ship USS Arleigh Burke ( DDG -51) followed in Somali waters, for which the government of the African country gave approval for the first time. In May 2009, Porter took part in the Joint Warrior exercise in the North Atlantic. With the USS Enterprise ( CVN -65) laid the Destroyer in 2012 towards the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean.

In the early morning hours of August 12, 2012, the Porter collided with the sailing under the Panamanian flag Japanese tanker M / V Otowasan in the Strait of Hormuz. According to a press release of the U.S. 5th Fleet no stakeholders were injured in the collision on both sides. The Porter could start on its own the port of Jebel Ali in the United Arab Emirates for evaluation and repair.