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USS Chung-Hoon
Arleigh-Burke class destroyer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS Chung-Hoon (DDG-93) is an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis destroyer serving in the United States Navy (USN). Chung-Hoon was named in honor of Rear Admiral Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon (1910–1979), recipient of the Navy Cross and the Silver Star.
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Name | Chung-Hoon |
Namesake | Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon |
Awarded | 6 March 1998 |
Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Northrop Grumman, Pascagoula, Mississippi[1] |
Laid down | 14 January 2002 |
Launched | 15 December 2002 |
Sponsored by | Michelle Punana Chung-Hoon |
Acquired | 22 March 2004 |
Commissioned | 18 September 2004 |
Homeport | Pearl Harbor |
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Status | in active service |
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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 kn (56 km/h) |
Complement | 380 officers and enlisted |
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Aircraft carried | 2 × MH-60R Seahawk helicopters |
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The contract to build her was awarded to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems on 6 March 1998, and her keel was laid down on 14 January 2002, at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Incorporated. She was launched on 11 January 2003, sponsored by Michelle Punana Chung-Hoon of Honolulu, Hawaii, Chung-Hoon's niece, and commissioned on 18 September 2004.[1]
She is part of the Pacific Fleet and homeported in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.