USS McCampbell (DDG-85)

Career (US)
Name:	USS McCampbell
Namesake:	Captain David McCampbell
Ordered:	13 December 1996
Builder:	Bath Iron Works
Laid down:	15 July 1999
Launched:	2 July 2000
Commissioned:	17 August 2002
Status:	in active service, as of 2011[update]
Badge:
General characteristics
Displacement:	9,200 tons
Length:	509 ft 6 11/16 in (155.3 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
Complement:	380 officers and enlisted
Armament:	1 x 32 cell, 1 x 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 96 x RIM-66 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles 1 x 5/62 in (127/62 mm), 2 x 25 mm, 4 x 12.7 mm guns 2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried:	2 x SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters
Motto:	Relentless in Battle

USS McCampbell (DDG-85) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy, named for Captain David McCampbell (1910–1996), the Navy's leading ace in World War II. She was built at the Bath Iron Works in Maine.

She arrived at Yokosuka Naval Base in Yokosuka, Japan as part of the US Navy's Forward Deployed Naval Forces in July 2007, and is now permanently homeported there.

McCampbell maintains on board an active VBSS team to conduct anti piracy, anti-smuggling, and anti-terrorist operations. The ship was an active participant in IMDEX, and the VBSS team was a centerpiece in the multilateral training effort held in conjunction with the exposition.

On 23 June 2009, it was reported that the McCampbell had taken over from the USS John S. McCain in shadowing the North Korean ship Kang Nam 1 toward Burma in enforcement of a new United Nations resolution, United Nations Security Council Resolution 1874.

In March 2011, USS McCampbell was the first US Navy vessel on station off northeastern Honshu, Japan to assist with relief efforts after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and deliver food, supplies, and other material aid directly to survivors. Later, after the arrival of the carrier Ronald Reagan, the ship continued relief efforts as an element in Carrier Strike Group Seven, using the carrier as a supply distribution hub through early April.^[1]

On 13 June 2011 it was reported that McCampbell had intercepted the North Korean-flagged merchant vessel Shanghai. McCampbell requested permission to board the vessel, which was suspected of carrying missile technology, but was refused. After several days the MV Light turned around and returned to North Korea, tracked by surveillance aircraft and satellites.^[2]

Notes

1. ^ Rabiroff, John. "U.S. military delivers 40 tons of supplies to hardest-hit areas," Stars and Stripes (US). March 17, 2011; Seawaves,"Warships Supporting Earthquake in Japan"
2. ^ "US Navy 'stopped North Korean vessel bound for Burma'". BBC News. 13 June 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13747912. Retrieved 13 June 2011. 

References

• This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.
• News article on 26 March 2006 accident
• News article on 23 June 2009 deployment

External links

• USS McCampbell official website
• Yokosuka Naval Base Community Website
• USS McCampbell News
• nvr.navy.mil: USS McCampbell
• navsource.org: USS McCampbell
• navysite.de: USS McCampbell
• USS McCampbell (DDG-85) command histories – Naval History & Heritage Command

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