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| The USS Curtis Wilbur undergoing replenisment in the Pacific Ocean. | |
| Career | |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | 13 December 1988 |
| Laid down: | 12 March 1991 |
| Launched: | 16 May 1992 |
| Commissioned: | 19 March 1994 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Fate: | Active in service |
| Homeport: | Yokosuka, Japan |
| Struck: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 8,315 tons |
| Length: | 505 ft |
| Beam: | 66 ft |
| Draught: | 31 ft |
| Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp |
| Speed: | 30+ knots |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 337 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 1 x 29 cell, 1 x 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 90 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 Phalanx CIWS 2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes |
| Aircraft: | 1 SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter can be embarked |
| Motto: | Prudens Potens Patria - Judicious Power for Country |
USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG-54) is the fourth Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyerUSS Lassen (DDG-82), an Arleigh Burke class destroyer. The Arleigh Burke class of guided missile destroyers are built around the Aegis combat system and the SPY-1D multi-function phased array radar. The first ship was commissioned on 4 July 1991. The Arle. Built by 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 in BathBath 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, MaineMaine is a state of the United States. It is probably named after the French province of Maine. Another possibility for the name 'Maine' is that the people living on islands along the coast of Maine used to speak of going to the mainland as 'going over to, she was commissioned on 10 December 1994. Curtis Wilbur was named for Curtis D. WilburThe forty-third Secretary of the Navy, Curtis Dwight Wilbur ( 10 May 1867 8 September 1954) was born in Boonesboro, Iowa. He was appointed to the United States Naval Academy in 1884. Shortly after graduation, Curtis Wilbur resigned his commission, a commo, the forty-third Secretary of the Navy and is homeported in Yokosuka, Japan.