USS Truxtun (DDG-103)

For other ships of the same name, see USS Truxtun.

USS Truxtun (DDG 103) during christening ceremony, 2 June 2007.
Career (USA)
Name:	USS Truxtun
Namesake:	Commodore Thomas Truxtun
Awarded:	13 September 2002[1]
Builder:	NGSS Ingalls[1]
Laid down:	11 April 2005[1]
Launched:	17 April 2007[1]
Christened:	2 June 2007
Acquired:	24 October 2008[1]
Commissioned:	25 April 2009 (ceremony)[2]
Homeport:	Naval Station Norfolk[1]
Motto:	"Pursue Attack Vanquish"
Status:	in active service, as of 2011[update]
Notes:
General characteristics
Class and type:	Arleigh Burke class destroyer
Displacement:	9,200 tons[1]
Length:	510 ft (160 m)[1]
Beam:	66 ft (20 m)[1]
Draft:	31 ft (9.4 m)[1]
Propulsion:	4 General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, two shafts, 100,000 total shaft horsepower (75 MW)[3]
Speed:	>30 knots (56 km/h)[3]
Range:	4,400 nautical miles at 20 knots (8,100 km at 37 km/h)
Complement:	380 officers and enlisted[1]
Sensors and processing systems:	• AN/SPY-1D Radar • AN/SPS-67(V)2 Surface Search Radar • AN/SPS-64(V)9 Surface Search Radar • AN/SQS-53C Sonar Array • AN/SQQ-28 LAMPS III Shipboard System
Electronic warfare and decoys:	• AN/SLQ-32(V)2 Electronic Warfare System • AN/SLQ-25 Nixie Torpedo Countermeasures • MK 36 MOD 12 Decoy Launching System • AN/SLQ-39 CHAFF Buoys
Armament:	1 × 32 cell, 1 × 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 96 × RIM-66 SM-2, RIM-162 ESSM, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles 1 × Mark 45 Mod 4 5"/62 caliber (127 mm/62 cal), 2 × 25 mm, 4 × 12.7 mm guns 2 × Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried:	2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters

USS Truxtun (DDG-103) is a US Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. Her keel was laid down on 11 April 2005 and she was launched on 17 April 2007.^[1] Her commissioning ceremony was held 25 April 2009 in Charleston, South Carolina with Commander Timothy Weber as her first commanding officer. She is named for American Naval hero Thomas Truxtun.^[2]

DDG-103 suffered a major electrical fire during construction at NGSS Ingalls, Pascagoula, Mississippi 20 May 2006 engulfing two levels and causing damage believed to be in the millions of dollars.^[4] She was christened on 2 June 2007 at NGSS Ingalls in Pascagoula Mississippi^[5] and was sponsored by Susan Scott Martin and Carol Leigh Roelker, descendants of Thomas Truxtun.^[6]

Of note, February 17 was the 255th anniversary of Thomas Truxtun's birth.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} "USS Truxtun". Naval Vessel Register. http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/DDG103.htm. Retrieved 22 April 2009. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Roughead Delivers Principal Address at Truxtun Commissioning". Navy News Service. 25 April 2009. http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=44722. Retrieved 26 April 2009. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "Navy To Commission Guided Missile Destroyer Truxtun". Navy News Service. 22 April 2009. http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=44599. Retrieved 22 April 2009. 
4. ^ USS Truxtun Damaged In Weekend Fire At Northrop Grumman Shipyard. Geoff Fein. Defense Daily. Published 23 May 2006.
5. ^ "New Truxtun joins distinguished line". Leigh Coleman. Sun Herald (Biloxi, MS) Published 3 June 2007.
6. ^ Northrop Grumman-built Truxtun (DDG 103) Christening Commemorates a Founding Father of the U.S. Navy. NGSS Press Release. June 2, 2007.

External links

• Official ship's site
• navsource.org: USS Truxtun