USS Roosevelt (DDG-80)

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 Roosevelt ( DDG- 80) is a destroyer of the Arleigh Burke-class. The United States Navy named after the ship explicitly both the 32nd President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and after his wife Eleanor Roosevelt.

History

DDG -80 was ordered in 1995 and laid the end of 1997 at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Kiel. The construction lasted just over one year, the final outfitting and sea trials, the shipyard then lasted until 14 October 2000, when Roosevelt was officially put into service.

2002 moved the Roosevelt in European waters, including the ship visited Gibraltar. In 2004 she took part in exercises with the USS John F. Kennedy (CV -67). 2006 the destroyer operated in the war on terror together with the Dutch frigate De Zeven Provinciën in the Indian Ocean. The two ships would intercept off the Somali coast, a South Korean trawler that had been taken over by pirates. After the privateers threatened to kill the crew of the trawler, however, had the two ships to retreat. 2007 addresses the destroyer from the Monterey as the flagship of Standing NATO Maritime Group 2. In 2008, he moved to the side of Iwo Jima, 2009, he participated with this on the New York Fleet Week. In the night of 16 to 17 3.2014 the destroyer was involved in the application of an oil tanker Morning Glory before Cyprus, who drove before 6 months under a North Korean flag. The tanker was removed from the registry of North Korea just before boarding due to breach of contract and became stateless. The operation was performed by a Navy Seals team command. The tanker should run an oil delivery in favor of separatist rebels acting Cyrenaica region to middlemen. ()