USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109)
 The Dunham in the Atlantic |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Order | September 13, 2002 |
| Keel laying | April 11, 2008 |
| Launch | August 2, 2009 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | November 13, 2010 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
9200 tons |
| length |
156 meters |
| width |
20 metres |
| Draft |
9.5 meters |
| crew |
32 officers, 350 men |
| drive |
2 propellers, driven by 4 gas turbines; 100,000 wave horsepower |
| speed |
31 knots |
| Armament |
96 VLS cells for standard missile SM-2 or RUM-139 VL-ASROC |
The USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109) is a destroyer in the United States Navy and belongs to the Arleigh Burke class . It is named after Corporal Jason Dunham . Dunham died after shielding a hand grenade with his body during the Iraq war in 2004, thus protecting his comrades. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor .
history
DDG-109 was commissioned in 2002. In 2008 Bath Iron Works put the ship on the piles. The ship was christened on August 1, 2009, godmother was the mother of the corporal, Deb Dunham. A day later, the Jason Dunham was launched. The ship was handed over to the Navy in the summer of 2010 and entered service in Port Everglades on November 13, 2010 .
In June 2012, the Jason Dunham made her maiden voyage alongside the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) in the Mediterranean and Arabian waters. In early July, she took part in the multinational exercise Sea Breeze 12 in the Black Sea.
In 2015, the destroyer operated in the Baltic Sea and visited the ports in Gdynia, Poland (May 6th to 11th and June 4th to 8th), the Norwegian Marian base Haakonsvern (May 13th to 18th), during the Kiel Week from 19th to June 24th in the Tirpitzhafen in Kiel and from June 28th to July 1st the Swedish naval base Karlskrona .
Web links
- Entry in the Naval Vessel Register (Engl.)
- Official homepage ( Memento from August 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.shz.de/regionales/themen/kieler-woche/die-welt-zu-gast-im-tirpitzhafen-id10016561.html Kiel Week: The world as a guest in the Tirpitzhafen