USS Sampson (DDG-102)

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 Sampson (DDG- 102) is a destroyer in the United States Navy and is one of the Arleigh Burke - class. It is named after Admiral William Thomas Sampson, the war in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba won a victory for the U.S. Navy in the Spanish- American War.

History

DDG -102 was commissioned in 2002 and thus belonged to the first approved in the new millennium batch. The keel-laying ceremony was held at Bath Iron Works in March 2005. The construction lasted approximately one and a half years. Accordingly, launching and naming ceremony took place in September 2006. Godmother was Mrs. Clara Parsons, great-granddaughter of Admiral.

This was followed by the final outfitting of the ship at the pier and in the shipyard sea trials. The official commissioning ceremony in the fleet of the U.S. Navy took place in Boston Harbor on 3 November 2007. The Sampson was then stationed in San Diego and is traveling in the Pacific Fleet. The first deployment began in July 2009 as an escort of the USS Nimitz (CVN -68) and led the destroyer into the Arabian Sea. In the summer of 2010, Sampson then at the Seattle Seafair took part in the multinational exercise RIMPAC, in August 2011.