USS Pinckney
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USS Pinckney (DDG-91) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named for African American Officer's Cook First Class William Pinckney (1915–1976),[1] who received the Navy Cross for his courageous rescue of a fellow crewmember on board the aircraft carrier Enterprise (CV-6) during the Battle of Santa Cruz.
USS Pinckney and Almirante Juan de Borbón on 10 August 2004 | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | Pinckney |
Namesake | William Pinckney |
Ordered | 6 March 1998 |
Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
Laid down | 16 July 2001 |
Launched | 26 June 2002 |
Commissioned | 29 May 2004 |
Homeport | San Diego |
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Motto | Proud to Serve |
Honors and awards | See Awards |
Status | in active service |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Arleigh Burke-class destroyer |
Displacement | 9,200 long tons (9,300 t) |
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; 35 mph) |
Complement | 380 officers and enlisted |
Electronic warfare & decoys | SLQ-32(V)7 (SEWIP Block 3) |
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Aircraft carried | 2 × MH-60R Seahawk helicopters |
Pinckney was laid down on 16 July 2001 by Ingalls Shipbuilding, at Pascagoula, Mississippi; launched on 26 June 2002; and commissioned on 29 May 2004 at Naval Construction Battalion Center Port Hueneme. She is the first Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to be equipped with the AN/SPY-1D(V) Littoral Warfare Radar upgrade, which was fitted to all subsequent Flight IIA Arleigh Burkes.[2]
As of January 2018, Pinckney is homeported at NS San Diego, and assigned to Destroyer Squadron 23.[3]