USS Paul Hamilton (DDG-60)

USS Paul Hamilton returns to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
History
United States
Name:	USS Paul Hamilton
Namesake:	Paul Hamilton
Ordered:	22 February 1990
Builder:	Bath Iron Works
Laid down:	24 August 1992
Launched:	24 July 1993
Commissioned:	27 May 1995
Homeport:	San Diego, California
Motto:	The Courage to Prevail
Status:	in active service
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type:	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement:	Light: approx. 6,800 long tons (6,900 t) Full: approx. 8,900 long tons (9,000 t)
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:	33 commissioned officers 38 chief petty officers 210 enlisted personnel
Sensors and processing systems:	AN/SPY-1D 3D radar AN/SPS-67(V)2 surface-search radar AN/SPS-73(V)12 surface-search radar AN/SPG-62 fire-control radar AN/SQS-53C sonar array AN/SQR-19 tactical towed array sonar AN/SQQ-28 LAMPS III shipboard system
Electronic warfare & 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 launching systems with 90 × RIM-156 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-ASROC missiles 2 x Mk 141 Harpoon Missile Launcher SSM 1 × Mark 45 5/54 in (127/54 mm) 2 × 25 mm chain gun 4 × .50 caliber (12.7 mm) guns 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 2 × Mk 32 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried:	2 Sikorsky MH-60R helicopters can be embarked

USS Paul Hamilton (DDG-60) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy currently in service. The ship is named after Paul Hamilton, the third United States Secretary of the Navy,

Constructed at Bath Iron Works (BIW) in Bath, Maine, Paul Hamilton was commissioned in Charleston, South Carolina. The destroyer was transferred to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii after her commissioning. She is currently homeported in San Diego, California.

In July 2015, she along with the Royal Navy's HMS Duncan, participated in airstrikes against ISIL.^[1]

Photos

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  Left side view of USS Paul Hamilton at the Manila Port Harbor
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  Rear view of USS Paul Hamilton at the Manila Port Harbor
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  An AN/SPY-1 Antenna of USS Paul Hamilton
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  The main mast of USS Paul Hamilton
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  Side view of the Phalanx CIWS of USS Paul Hamilton
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  Front view of the Phalanx CIWS of USS Paul Hamilton
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  Side view of the Mk 141 and Mk 32 launchers of USS Paul Hamilton
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  Rear view of the Mk 141 and Mk 32 launchers of USS Paul Hamilton
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  Side view of the Mk 45 main gun of USS Paul Hamilton

References

• This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to USS Paul Hamilton (DDG-60).

• Official USS Paul Hamilton (DDG-60) website