USS Chung-Hoon

USS Chung-Hoon at her homeport of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in September 2004.
History
United States
Name:	USS Chung-Hoon
Namesake:	Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon
Awarded:	6 March 1998
Builder:	Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Northrop Grumman, Pascagoula, Mississippi
Laid down:	14 January 2002
Launched:	15 December 2002
Sponsored by:	Michelle Punana Chung-Hoon
Acquired:	22 March 2004
Commissioned:	18 September 2004
Homeport:	Pearl Harbor
Motto:	Imua e na Koa Kai – Go Forward Sea Warriors
Status:	in active service
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type:	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement:	9,200 tons
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)
Complement:	380 officers and enlisted
Armament:	1 x 32 cell 1 x 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems 96 x RIM-66 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-ASROC missiles 1 x 5 in (130 mm)/62 2 x 25 mm Mk 38 4 x .50 cal (12.7 mm) guns 2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes 1 x Phalanx CIWS

USS Chung-Hoon (DDG-93) is an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis destroyer serving in the United States Navy (USN). Chung-Hoon was named in honor of Rear Admiral Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon (1910–1979), recipient of the Navy Cross and the Silver Star.

The contract to build her was awarded to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems on 6 March 1998, and her keel was laid down on 14 January 2002, at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Incorporated. She was launched on 11 January 2003, sponsored by Michelle Punana Chung-Hoon of Honolulu, Hawaii, Chung-Hoon's niece, and commissioned on 18 September 2004.

She is part of the Pacific Fleet and homeported in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

In October 2005, while operating 360 miles northeast of Kahului, Chung-Hoon responded to a distress call from the bulk freighter C-Laurel. Chung-Hoon provided emergency medical care until the ship was within range of Coast Guard aircraft.

In September 2006, Chung-Hoon served as host ship to the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy's (PLAN) Luhu-class destroyer Qingdao during Qingdao's visit to Pearl Harbor. The two ships conducted communications and mobility exercises on 10 September 2006. According to Xinhua News Agency, it was the first such exercise by USN and PLAN ships and the first visit by a Chinese navy ship to a U.S. state in six years.