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USS Nitze (DDG-94)
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| Ordered: | 6 March 1998 |
| Laid down: | 20 September 2002 |
| Launched: | 3 April 2004 |
| Commissioned: | 5 March 2005 |
| Status: | Active in service as of 2007 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 6,600 tons light, 9,200 tons full, 2,600 tons dead |
| Length: | 509 feet 6 inches (155.3 meters) overall, 471 feet (143.6 meters) waterline |
| Beam: | 66 feet (20.1 meters) extreme, 59 feet (18 meters) waterline |
| Draft: | 31 feet (9.4 meters) maximum, 22 feet (6.7 meters) limit |
| Propulsion: | four General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, two shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW) |
| Speed: | 30+ knots |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 32 officers, 348 men |
| Armament: | one 32-cell, one 64-cell Mark 41 vertical launch systems, 96 RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles one 5/62 in (127/62 mm) gun, two 25 mm, four 12.7 mm guns two Mark 46 triple torpedo tubes |
| Aircraft: | two SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters |
| Motto: | "One Team, One Fight" |
USS Nitze (DDG-94), an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Paul Nitze, who served as Secretary of the Navy under President Lyndon B. Johnson and as chief arms control adviser in the administration of President Ronald Reagan.
The contract to build her was awarded to Bath Iron Works Corporation in Bath, Maine on 6 March 1998 and her keel was laid down on 20 September 2002. She was launched on 3 April 2004 sponsored by Elisabeth "Leezee" Porter, Nitze's wife. Nitze, 97 years old, was present at the christening, thus adding the destroyer to the rapidly growing list of military vessels named after living Americans. Nitze was commissioned on 5 March 2005, with Commander Michael A. Hegarty in command.
While in command, Hegarty saw port visits in New York for Fleet Week, Mobile, AL for Mardi Gras, and several other high visabilty port visits. Commander Robert N. Hein is currently the commanding officer, along with Lieutenant Commander Carrigan as the Executive Officer. The ship is known as the "Cold Warriors." This is in reference to Paul Nitze's involvement with the Cold War. Nitze, based out of Norfolk, VA, went on its maiden deployment on January 5, 2007 as part of the Bataan Expeditionary Strike Group.
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.
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| Flight I ships |
Arleigh Burke | Barry | John Paul Jones | Curtis Wilbur | Stout | John S. McCain | Mitscher | Laboon | Russell | Paul Hamilton | Ramage | Fitzgerald | Stethem | Carney | Benfold | Gonzalez | Cole | The Sullivans | Milius | Hopper | Ross |
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| Flight IIA ships |
5"/54 variant: Oscar Austin | Roosevelt |
| List of destroyers of the United States Navy | List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy | |