USS Stout (DDG-55)
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 USS Stout (right) moored alongside USS Nassau in Norfolk, Virginia. |
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| Career (US) |  |
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| Name: | USS Stout (DDG-55) |
| Ordered: | 13 December 1988 |
| Laid down: | 8 August 1991 |
| Launched: | 16 October 1992 |
| Commissioned: | 13 August 1994 |
| Homeport: | Norfolk, Virginia |
| Motto: | Courage - Valor - Integrity |
| Fate: | Active in service as of 2008 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Arleigh Burke-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | Light: approx. 6,794.38 tons Full: approx. 8,885.66 tons |
| Length: | 505 ft (154 m) |
| Beam: | 66 ft (20 m) |
| Draft: | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, two shafts, 100,000 total shaft horsepower (75 MW) |
| Speed: | 30+ knots (56+ km/h) |
| Range: | 4,400 nautical miles at 20 knots (8,100 km at 37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 23 Officers 24 Chief Petty Officers 291 Enlisted Personnel |
| 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/SQR-19 Tactical Towed Array Sonar • 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 × 29 cell, 1 × 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems with 90 × RIM-66 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc missiles |
| Aircraft carried: | 1 SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter can be embarked |
USS Stout (DDG-55) is the sixth Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer. Built by Ingalls Shipbuilding, she was commissioned on 13 August 1994 and she is currently homeported in Norfolk, Virginia.
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[edit] Etymology
Stout was named for Rear Admiral Herald F. Stout (1903–1987), who distinguished himself as the Commanding Officer of the destroyer USS Claxton during World War II. Then a Commander, Stout aided his task force in sinking five heavily armed, enemy warships to establish a beachhead on Bougainvillea Island.
[edit] Honors and awards
On 16 February 2007, Stout was awarded the 2006 Battle "E". [1]
In April 2008, Stout had the dubious honor of comprehensively failing[2] its Board of Inspection and Survey examination and being judged "unfit for sustained combat operations."[3]
[edit] References
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.
- ^ Surface Force Ships, Crew Earn Battle "E"
- ^ U.S. Navy Finds Glaring Flaws in 2 Surface Ships, Defense News, 20 April 2008, accessed 22 April 2008
- ^ Navy Board of Inspection and Survey Report: USS Stout
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