USS Gravely
Arleigh Burke-class destroyer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS Gravely (DDG-107) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named after Vice Admiral Samuel L. Gravely Jr. Commissioned in 2010, she has been on several overseas deployments.
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USS Gravely in 2013 | |
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Name | Gravely |
Namesake | Samuel L. Gravely, Jr.[1] |
Awarded | 13 September 2002[2] |
Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding[2] |
Laid down | 26 November 2007[2] |
Launched | 30 March 2009[2] |
Sponsored by | Alma Gravely[1] |
Christened | 16 May 2009[1] |
Commissioned | 20 November 2010[3] |
Homeport | Norfolk[2] |
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Motto | First To Conquer |
Status | in active service[2] |
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Class and type | Arleigh Burke-class destroyer |
Displacement | 9,200 long tons (9,300 t) |
Length | 509 ft 6 in (155.30 m)[2] |
Beam | 66 ft (20 m)[2] |
Draft | 33 ft (10 m)[2] |
Propulsion | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW)[2] |
Speed | 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)[1] |
Complement | 312 officers and enlisted[2] |
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Aircraft carried | 2 × MH-60R Seahawk helicopters |
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