USS Bainbridge (DDG-96)

USS Bainbridge (DDG-96)

History
United States
Namesake:	William Bainbridge
Ordered:	6 March 1998
Builder:	Bath Iron Works
Laid down:	7 May 2003
Christened:	13 November 2004
Commissioned:	12 November 2005
Homeport:	Naval Station Norfolk
Motto:	Competence, Dedication, Discipline
Status:	in active service
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General characteristics
Class and type:	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement:	9,200 tons
Length:	509 ft 6 in (155.3 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:	270 officers and enlisted
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/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:	Missiles 1 × 32 cell and 1 × 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems 96 × RIM-66 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk, and/or RUM-139 VL-Asroc missiles Guns 1 × 5"/62 caliber (127/62 mm) 2 × 25 mm 4 × 12.7 mm 1 × 20mm Phalanx CIWS Torpedoes 2 × Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried:	2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters

USS Bainbridge (DDG-96) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She is the fifth ship to carry that name, and the 46th destroyer of a planned 75-ship class. Bainbridge is named in honor of Commodore William Bainbridge, who as commander of the frigate USS Constitution distinguished himself in the War of 1812 when he and his crew captured HMS Java, a 38-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy.

Since her commissioning in 2005, Bainbridge has been active in the Mediterranean Sea, but most of the attention she has garnered has been as a result of the failed hijacking attempt of the U.S.-flagged freighter MV Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates in April, 2009, which ended with the release of the vessel's Master, Captain Richard Phillips, on 12 April 2009. After crewmen of the captured cargo vessel managed to retake the ship, the pirates retreated, taking the ship's Master hostage in a lifeboat. Bainbridge, Halyburton, and Boxer shadowed the pirates, and with FBI assistance attempted negotiations for the safe return of the captive captain until U.S. Navy SEAL snipers resolved the situation with deadly force. The story of this incident was turned into the 2013 motion picture titled Captain Phillips, starring Tom Hanks.Bainbridge was portrayed by sister ship Truxtun

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