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USS Curtis Wilbur
Arleigh Burke-class destroyer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG-54) is the fourth Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer. Curtis Wilbur was named for Curtis D. Wilbur, forty-third Secretary of the Navy, who served under President Calvin Coolidge. In 2016, she was based at Yokosuka, Japan, as part of Destroyer Squadron 15.[4]
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Name | Curtis Wilbur |
Namesake | Curtis D. Wilbur |
Ordered | 13 December 1988 |
Builder | Bath Iron Works |
Laid down | 12 March 1991 |
Launched | 16 May 1992 |
Commissioned | 19 March 1994 |
Homeport | San Diego |
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Nickname(s) | Steel Hammer of the Republic |
Honors and awards | See Awards |
Status | in active service |
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Class and type | Arleigh Burke-class destroyer |
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Length | 505 ft (154 m) |
Beam | 59 ft (18 m) |
Draft | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
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Propulsion | 2 × shafts |
Speed | In excess of 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
Range | 4,400 nmi (8,100 km; 5,100 mi) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × Sikorsky MH-60R |
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Built by Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, she was commissioned in Long Beach, California, on 19 March 1994. The keynote speaker for the ceremony was then-Secretary of the Navy, John H. Dalton.