USS Truxtun (DDG-103)

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 Truxtun (DDG -103 ) is a destroyer in the United States Navy and is one of the Arleigh Burke - class. It is named after Commodore Thomas Truxtun, an early naval heroes of the U.S. Navy and commander of the USS Constellation and USS President.

History

DDG -103 was commissioned in 2002. The keel-laying ceremony took place at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi in April 2005. During the building collapsed on 20 May 2006 from a heavy fire in the deckhouse. In addition to the Shipyard Ingalls Fire Department of the fire department had to move out of Pascagoula. The deletion lasted several hours, devastated the ship and delayed the construction for months. So the ship could be launched from the dock until 17 April 2007 the baptism of Truxtun was held on 2 June 2007. The commissioning took place in Charleston on April 25, 2009. The destroyer was stationed at Naval Station Norfolk.

Your first mission trip began Truxtun in May 2011, when she accompanied the USS George HW Bush ( CVN -77 ) in Arabic and European waters. During the Krimkrise 2014, the ship in March 2014 was transferred to the Black Sea.

During the filming of the movie Captain Phillips, the ship turned the sister ship USS Bainbridge dar.