USS Laboon (DDG-58)

The laboon passed the porter Washington
Overview
Order	December 13, 1988
Keel laying	March 23, 1992
Launch	February 20, 1993
1. Period of service
Commissioning	March 18, 1995
Technical specifications
displacement	8315 tons
length	154 m
width	20 metres
Draft	9.5 meters
crew	26 officers, 315 men
drive	2 propellers, driven by 4 gas turbines; 100,000 wave horsepower
speed	31 knots
Armament	90 VLS cells 2 triple torpedo launchers 1 127 mm gun

The USS Laboon (DDG-58) is a destroyer of the Arleigh Burke class in the fleet of the United States Navy . It is named after the Navy Rev. John Francis Laboon Jr.

history

The Laboon was commissioned in 1988. The keel of the ship was laid at Bath Iron Works on March 23, 1992, and the ship was launched at the end of February 1993. The official commissioning with the Navy took place in 1995.

In 1996, the Laboon moved as part of the combat group around the USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) in the Persian Gulf, where it launched the first cruise missiles with the USS Shiloh (CG 67) during Operation Desert Strike . In 1996, Lieutenant Erica Niedermeier from the USS Laboon was the first woman in the US Navy to fire several Tomahawk cruise missiles in action.

In 2000, the Laboon was assigned to the combat group around the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) , in 2002 it took part in Operation Enduring Freedom , this time as an escort for USS George Washington (CVN-73) . The laboon was part of exercise FRUKUS in 2007 , a joint exercise between the French, Russian, British and US navies. At the beginning of 2009, the ship moved to the Mediterranean, where it sailed with the Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 . Also in August 2010, the Laboon moved to the Mediterranean and further into the Indian Ocean to fight piracy there.

After an assassination attempt on the US consulate in Benghazi , Libya on September 12, 2012 , in which the four diplomats and the American ambassador responsible for Libya, John Christopher Stevens, were killed, the Laboon was together with the USS McFaul , another destroyer of the Arleigh Burke- class , relocated to the Libyan coast without a specific order according to government information.

In the air strike on Damascus and Homs on April 14, 2018, the Laboon participated with the use of seven Tomahawk cruise missiles from the eastern Mediterranean.

Web links

Commons : USS Laboon (DDG-58)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Entry in the Naval Vessel Register (Engl.)
• official website (English).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Time Almanac 2001, p. 365, ISBN 1-929049-12-9
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from December 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ FAZ.net: Washington assumes a planned attack in Benghazi , accessed on September 13, 2012.