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USS CHUNG-HOON DDG93 - IMO 4677215

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Photographer:
Clyde Dickens [ View profile ]
Captured:
Aug 11, 2013
Location:
Sydney, Australia
Photo Category:
Destroyers
Added:
Aug 11, 2013
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Image Resolution:
3,119 x 2,081

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Sydney Harbour, Fleet Base East Garden Island. 11 August 2013.
See Google Earth 33°51'56.52" S 151°13'24.70" E

USS Chung-Hoon is named in honor of native Hawaiian Rear Adm. Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon, recipient of the Navy Cross and Silver Star in World War II for conspicuous gallantry and extraordinary heroism as Commanding Officer of USS Sigsbee (DD 502) from May 1944 to October 1945

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Name: USS Chung-Hoon
Namesake: Gordon Pai'ea Chung-Hoon
Awarded: 6 March 1998
Builder: Northrop Grumman
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, as of 2013
Badge: USS Chung Hoon DDG-93 Crest.png
General characteristics
Class & 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 5/62 in (127/62 mm)
2 x 25 mm
4 x 12.7 mm guns
2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
1 x Phalanx CIWS

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And nice lighting, hope you get her on the move.

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