- USS Shoup (DDG-86)
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Career (US) 
Name: USS Shoup Namesake: 
General David M. ShoupAwarded: 13 December 1996 Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding Laid down: 13 December 1999 Launched: 22 November 2000 Commissioned: 22 June 2002 Homeport: NAVSTA Everett, Washington Motto: Victoria Per Perserverantiam Venit ("Through Perseverance Comes Victory") Status: in active service, as of 2011[update] Badge: 
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: 380 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 in (127 mm)/62, 2 × 25 mm, 4 × 0.50 in (12.7 mm) guns
1 × 20 mm Phalanx 1B Baseline 1 CIWS
2 × Mk 46 triple torpedo tubesAircraft carried: 2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters USS Shoup (DDG-86) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. The ship is named for General David M. Shoup (1904–1983), the 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps.
Construction on the ship began at the Northrop Grumman Ship Systems' Ingalls Operations on 10 November 1998. Her keel was laid on 13 December 1999 and she was launched on 22 November 2000. Shoup sailed into the Gulf of Mexico for the first of her sea trials on 11 December 2001. The vessel was delivered to the Navy by Northrop Grumman on 18 February 2002 and departed Pascagoula on 22 April 2002. Shoup was commissioned on 22 June 2002 at Port Terminal 37 in Seattle, Washington. Her present homeport is Everett WA.
In July 2002, she successfully conducted the US Navy's operational evaluation of the RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile with two test firings.[1]
In January 2005, she participated in Operation Unified Assistance. She was used as a filming location for the 2007 film, Transformers.
On August 1, 2010 the ship collided with a civilian vessel off Oceanside, California. The hull of the 21-foot civilian boat was cracked, but no injuries were reported. Shoup was not damaged.[2]
Shoup provided assistance to Korean naval forces after their recapture of the chemical tanker Samho Jewelry on 21 January 2011 in the Arabian Sea. The tanker's captain had been shot by pirates holding the vessel and a helicopter from Shoup was used to evacuate him in order for him to receive medical treatment for his injuries.
References
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.
- ^ "ESSM completes OPEVAL with 'flying colors'", Seapower, May 2003.
- ^ Perry, Tony, "Navy Ship And Boat Collide", Los Angeles Times, August 3, 2010, p. AA5.
External links
Shoup in the South China Sea, April 2006
Shoup in Portland, Oregon for the Rose Festival Fleet Week, June 2009Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Flight I ships Arleigh Burke · Barry · John Paul Jones · Curtis Wilbur · Stout · John S. McCain · Mitscher · Laboon · Russell · Paul Hamilton · Ramage · Fitzgerald · Stethem · Carney · Benfold · Gonzalez · Cole · The Sullivans · Milius · Hopper · Ross
Flight II ships Flight IIA ships 5"/54 variant5"/62 variantWinston S. Churchill · Lassen · Howard · Bulkeley · McCampbell · Shoup · Mason · Preble · Mustin · Chafee · Pinckney · Momsen · Chung-Hoon · Nitze · James E. Williams · Bainbridge · Halsey · Forrest Sherman · Farragut · Kidd · Gridley · Sampson · Truxtun · Sterett · Dewey · Stockdale · Gravely · Wayne E. Meyer · Jason Dunham · William P. Lawrence · Spruance · Michael Murphy
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