USS Truxtun (DDG-103)

USS Truxtun (DDG-103)

USS Truxtun (DDG-103) pulling into Souda Bay on 21 September 2012.
History
United States
Name:	USS Truxtun
Namesake:	Commodore Thomas Truxtun
Awarded:	13 September 2002
Builder:	NGSS Ingalls
Laid down:	11 April 2005
Launched:	17 April 2007
Christened:	2 June 2007
Acquired:	24 October 2008
Commissioned:	25 April 2009 (ceremony)
Homeport:	Naval Station Norfolk
Motto:	"Pursue Attack Vanquish"
Status:	in active service
Notes:
General characteristics
Class and type:	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement:	9,200 tons
Length:	510 ft (160 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:	380
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:	1 × 32 cell, 1 × 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 96 × RIM-66 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles 1 × 5 in/62 (127 mm/62), 2 × 25 mm, 4 × 12.7 mm guns 2 × Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes 1 × 20mm Phalanx CIWS
Aircraft carried:	2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters

USS Truxtun (DDG-103) is a United States Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer currently in service. The vessel is named for American Naval hero, and founding father of the U.S. Navy, Commodore Thomas Truxtun (1755–1822). It is the sixth U.S. naval warship to bear his name.

The ship's keel was laid down on 11 April 2005. DDG-103 suffered a major electrical fire during construction at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, on 20 May 2006, engulfing two levels and causing damage believed to have been in the millions of dollars. She was launched on 17 April 2007. The ship was christened on 2 June 2007 at NGSS Ingalls in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and was sponsored by Susan Scott Martin and Carol Leigh Roelker, descendants of Thomas Truxtun.

The commissioning ceremony was held 25 April 2009 in Charleston, South Carolina with Commander Timothy Weber as her first commanding officer.

On 6 March 2014, the U.S. Navy confirmed that USS Truxtun left Greece on the way to the Black Sea and was going to conduct training with the Romanian and Bulgarian navies. On 5 March 2014, Turkish authorities gave permission to a U.S. Navy warship to pass through the Bosphorus Straits. This modest U.S. show of force – the deployment of two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers (Truxtun and Donald Cook) to the Black Sea - was intended to calm the nerves of former Soviet republics and satellites nervous about the reunification of Crimea to the Russian Federation and was meant as "strategic reassurance".