USS Momsen (DDG-92)

USS Momsen in 2006
History
United States
Name:	USS Momsen
Namesake:	Charles Momsen
Ordered:	6 March 1998
Builder:	Bath Iron Works
Laid down:	16 November 2001
Launched:	19 July 2003
Commissioned:	28 August 2004
Homeport:	NAVSTA Everett, Washington
Motto:	Rise Above
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)
Draught:	31 ft (9.4 m)
Propulsion:	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW)
Speed:	>30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement:	280 officers and enlisted men
Armament:	1 × 64-cell & 1 × 32-cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems:   96 × RIM-66 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk, RUM-139 VL-ASROC, or RIM-162 ESSM missiles 1 × 5 in (130 mm)/62, 2 × 25 mm Mk 38, 4 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) guns 2 × Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes 1 × 20 mm Phalanx 1B Baseline 1 CIWS
Aircraft carried:	2 × MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopters

USS Momsen (DDG-92) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in service with the United States Navy.

Momsen is the twenty-sixth destroyer of the Arleigh Burke class to be built by Bath Iron Works. She is named after Vice Admiral Charles B. "Swede" Momsen of Flushing, Queens, New York (1896–1967). Vice Admiral Momsen made many contributions to the navy such as the invention of the Momsen Lung when he was assigned to the Bureau of Construction and Repair. Momsen was also involved in the first successful rescue of a crew of a sunken submarine, USS Squalus, and subsequently supervised the salvage of the boat.

USS Momsen's keel was laid on 16 November 2001. She was launched on 19 July 2003, sponsored by the Admiral's daughter, Evelyn Momsen Hailey. Momsen was commissioned on 28 August 2004, at Panama City, Florida, with Commander Edward Kenyon as her first captain.

As of 2008, Momsen is serving in the Pacific Fleet, homeported in NAVSTA Everett, Washington, and recently assigned to Destroyer Squadron 21 out of San Diego.

The construction of Momsen and sister ship Chafee, from initial steelcutting to sea trials, was documented in the Discovery Channel television special Destroyer: Forged in Steel. The destroyers were not referenced by name, but their numbers were visible on their prows.

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