USS Lassen (DDG-82)

USS Lassen (DDG-82)
Guided missile destroyer USS Lassen (DDG 82).jpg
USS Lassen underway in the rough seas of the East China Sea.
Career (USA)
Namesake: Clyde Everett Lassen
Ordered: 6 January 1995
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding
Laid down: 24 August 1998
Launched: 16 October 1999
Commissioned: 21 April 2001
Homeport: Yokosuka, Japan
Motto: From Courage, Life
Status: in active service, as of 2011
Badge: USSLassenCOA.jpg
General characteristics
Class and type: Arleigh Burke class destroyer
Displacement: 9,200 tons
Length: 509 ft 6 in (155.30 m)
Beam:   66 ft (20 m)
Draft:   31 ft (9.4 m)
Propulsion: 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW)
Speed: 30+ knots (55+ km/h)
Complement: 320 officers and enlisted
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″/62 (127mm/62), 2 × 25 mm, 4 × 12.7 mm guns, 2 × Phalanx CIWS
2 × Mk 32 triple torpedo tubes[1]
Aircraft carried: 2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters

USS Lassen (DDG-82) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. Her current commanding officer is Commander W.C. Wrye IV.

She was homeported in San Diego, CA until she shifted homeport to Yokosuka Naval Base in Yokosuka, Japan in August 2005, where she remains as of January 2011.

Lassen is named for Clyde Everett Lassen, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his courageous rescue of two downed aviators while commander of a search and rescue helicopter in Vietnam.

On February 15, 2009 at 12:25 p.m., Lassen collided with a Japanese 14-ton pleasure boat in Yokosuka harbor. Four people fishing on the pleasure boat, which was at anchor, were reportedly uninjured.[2] On March 23, 2009 the Japan Coast Guard filed a case against both the destroyer's and the fishing boat's captains with local prosecutors for professional negligence that endangered traffic.[3]

On July 1, 2009, Fox News Channel reported that Lassen was tracking the North Korean ship Kang Nam, suspected of carrying contraband.

References

  1. ^ "Welcome Aboard". USS Lassen DDG-82. US Navy. Archived from the original on 2008-01-07. http://web.archive.org/web/20080107121207/http://www.lassen.navy.mil/site+pages/Welcome+Aboard.aspx. Retrieved 2008-02-29. 
  2. ^ Kyodo News, "U.S. military ship has minor collision with small boat in Yokosuka"
  3. ^ Japan Times, "Port collision sent to prosecutors", March 24, 2009, p. 2.

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.

External links

USS Lassen in drydock in Yokosuka, with the sonar dome visible, January 2007



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