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| Career | |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | 6 March 1998 |
| Laid down: | 7 May 2003 |
| Launched: | 13 November 2004 |
| Commissioned: | |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Fate: | In workups |
| Struck: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 9,200 tons |
| Length: | 509 ft 6 in |
| Beam: | 66 ft |
| Draught: | 31 ft |
| Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp |
| Speed: | 30+ knots |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 380 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 1 x 32 cell, 1 x 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 96 x RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles 1 x 5 in, 2 x 25 mm, 4 x 12.7 mm guns 2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes |
| Aircraft: | 2 x SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters |
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The fourth USS Bainbridge (DDG-96) is the 46th of 62 planned Arleigh Burke-class destroyers in the United States Navy.
She was launched on 13 November 2004 at Bath Iron WorksNAS Brunswick photo gallery Bath Iron Works (BIW is located on the Kennebec River in Bath, Maine. Since it was founded in 1884, BIW has built private, commercial, and military vessels. Its biggest customer has been the U. Navy, for which BIW has built (an, Bath, MaineBath is a city located in Sagadahoc County, Maine. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 9,266. It is the county seat of Sagadahoc County 6. It has been a shipbuilding center since colonial times, and the site of the launch of Virginia, sponsored by Susan Bainbridge Hay, Commodore William BainbridgeWilliam Bainbridge ( May 7, 1774 July 28, 1833) was a Commodore in the United States Navy, notable for his victory over HMS Java during the War of 1812. Born in Princeton, New Jersey, at the age of fourteen he went to sea in the merchant service, and was's great-great-great-granddaughter. Commander John M. Dorey is scheduled to be her first commanding officer.
See USS BainbridgeFive ships of the United States Navy have been or will be named USS Bainbridge after William Bainbridge, a notable commodore of the early Navy. The first Bainbridge was a 12-gun brig commissioned in 1842 and lost off Cape Hatteras in 1863. The second Bain for other ships of this name.
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register.
| Arleigh Burke-class destroyer |
| 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 |
| Flight II ships: Mahan | Decatur | McFaul | Donald Cook | Higgins | O'Kane | Porter |
| Flight IIA ships: 5"/54 variant: Oscar Austin | Roosevelt | 5"/62 variant: Winston S. Churchill | Lassen | Howard | Bulkeley | McCampbell | Shoup | Mason | Preble | Mustin | Chafee | Pinckney | Momsen | Chung-Hoon | Nitze | James E. Williams | Bainbridge | Halsey | Forrest Sherman | Farragut | Kidd | Gridley | Sampson | Truxtun | Sterett | Dewey |
| List of destroyers of the United States Navy List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy |