USS Gravely (DDG-107)

Float off of Gravely (DDG-107)
Career
Name:	Gravely
Namesake:	Samuel L. Gravely, Jr.[1]
Awarded:	13 September 2002[2]
Builder:	Ingalls Shipbuilding[2]
Laid down:	26 November 2007[2]
Launched:	30 March 2009[2]
Sponsored by:	Alma Gravely[1]
Christened:	16 May 2009[1]
Commissioned:	20 November 2010[3]
Homeport:	Naval Station Norfolk[2]
Motto:	"First To Conquer"
Status:	in active service, as of 2011[update][2]
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type:	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement:	9,200 long tons (9,300 t)
Length:	509 ft 6 in (155.30 m)[2]
Beam:	66 ft (20 m)[2]
Draft:	33 ft (10 m)[2]
Propulsion:	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW)[2]
Speed:	30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)[1]
Complement:	370 officers and enlisted[2]
Armament:	• 1 × 32 cell, 1 × 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 96 × RIM-66 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles, • 1 × 5 in (127 mm)/62, 2 × 25 mm, 4 × 12.7 mm guns • 2 × Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried:	2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters

USS Gravely (DDG-107) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named after Vice Admiral Samuel L. Gravely, Jr.^[4]

Gravely is the 57th destroyer in her class. She was authorized on 13 September 2002 and her keel was laid down on 26 November 2007 at Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding's Ingalls Shipbuilding shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Gravely was launched on 30 March 2009.^[2] She successfully completed sea trial in June 2010.^[5]

Alma B.C. Gravely, Adm. Gravely's widow, christened Gravely, Northrop Grumman’s 27th Aegis guided missile destroyer, on 16 May 2009. Retired Navy Adm. J. Paul Reason was the principal speaker at the ceremony, which was held at Northrop’s facility in Pascagoula.^[1]

Gravely was commissioned at Wilmington, North Carolina on 20 November 2010 under the command of Commander Douglas Kunzman. ^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} "Navy Christens Newest Arleigh Burke Class Ship Gravely". Navy News Service. 14 May 2009. http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=45289. Retrieved 14 May 2009. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} "Gravely". Naval Vessel Register. NAVSEA Shipbuilding Support Office (NAVSHIPSO). http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/DDG107.htm. Retrieved 14 May 2009. 
3. ^ ^{a b} Trettor, Eric (13 November 2010). "PCU Gravely Arrives in Wilmington for Commissioning". Navy News Service. http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=57184. Retrieved 16 November 2010. 
4. ^ "Navy Names Newest Arleigh Burke Class Ship USS Gravely". Department of Defense. 12 September 2006. http://www.defenselink.mil/Releases/Release.aspx?ReleaseID=9948. Retrieved 14 May 2009. 
5. ^ "Pascagoula-built destroyer Gravely returns from sea trial", The Mississippi Press, June 30, 2010.

External links

• Official website of PCU Gravely Retrieved 2010-04-18.
• Willshaw, Fred. "USS Gravely (DDG-107)". Destroyer Photo Archive. NavSource Naval History. http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/01107.htm. Retrieved 2010-04-18. 
• Commissioning website