USS Roosevelt (DDG-80)
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USS Roosevelt transiting through the Suez Canal in February 2009.
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| Name: | USS Roosevelt |
| Namesake: | Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Awarded: | 6 January 1995 |
| Builder: | Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Mississippi |
| Laid down: | 15 December 1997 |
| Launched: | 10 January 1999 |
| Christened: | 23 January 1999 |
| Acquired: | 12 June 2000 |
| Commissioned: | 14 October 2000 |
| Homeport: | NAVSTA Mayport, Florida, U.S. |
| Motto: | "Leadership, Truth, Loyalty" |
| Status: | in active service |
| Badge: |  |
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| 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) |
| 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; 35 mph) |
| Complement: | 380 officers and enlisted |
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| Aircraft carried: | 2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters |
USS Roosevelt (DDG-80) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in service with the United States Navy. She is named in honor of both president Franklin D. Roosevelt and the former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. This ship is the 30th destroyer of her class. USS Roosevelt was the 13th ship of this class to be built at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and construction began on 15 December 1997. She was launched on 10 January 1999 and was christened on 23 January 1999. On 14 October 2000 the commissioning ceremony was held at Naval Station Mayport, Florida.
On 22 October 1996, the Secretary of the Navy, John H. Dalton, announced that the 30th ship of the Arleigh Burke class, would be named Roosevelt. This is the first ship so named to honor both Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States and the former First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. (The aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42) served from 1945–1977 before being scrapped.)
Roosevelt's keel was laid down on 15 December 1997 at Litton Industries' Ingalls Shipbuilding shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. She was launched on 10 January 1999, and christened on 23 January, sponsored by Mrs. Nancy Roosevelt Ireland, granddaughter of the ship's namesakes. The ship was commissioned on 14 October 2000 at Naval Station Mayport in Florida, with CDR Matthew E. Bobola in command.
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