USS Lassen (DDG-82)

The Lassen 2003 at a quick turn
Overview
Order	January 6, 1995
Keel laying	August 24, 1998
Launch	October 16, 1999
1. Period of service
Commissioning	April 21, 2001
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 2 triple torpedo launchers 1 127 mm gun

The USS Lassen (DDG-82) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer . The United States Navy named the ship after Clyde Everett Lassen , a naval aviator who received the Medal of Honor for rescuing fallen comrades during the Vietnam War .

history

DDG-82 was commissioned in 1995 and laid down at Ingalls Shipbuilding in August 1998 . After just over a year of construction, the destroyer was launched in October 1999 and was christened. The Lassen was officially put into service in April 2001 after the shipyard test drives.

The Lassen began her first laying in 2003, she was an escort ship for the carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) . In the western Pacific, the combat group replaced the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) that was actually stationed there and carried out overhaul work. From 2005, the Lassen was stationed in Yokosuka. In 2006 the ship took part in exercise Valiant Shield 2006 . In September 2007 a joint maneuver (Pacific Eagle) was carried out by the Russian Navy in the North Pacific. a. the destroyers RFS Admiral Panteleyev (548) and the Lassen took part. In 2008 Lassen moved again with the Kitty Hawk and took part with the porter on a port visit in Hong Kong in April .

At the end of March 2010, the destroyer was used to search for survivors on board the Cheonan (PCC-772) . According to official investigations, the South Korean ship was torpedoed off the North Korean coast, and a North Korean submarine is said to have carried out the attack. In July 2010, the destroyer took part in the Invincible Spirit exercise alongside the USS George Washington (CVN-73) along with South Korean forces . After the bombing of Yeonpyeong , the destroyer moved again on the Washington side into the Yellow Sea .

At the end of October 2015, the destroyer demonstratively crossed the Spratly Islands in the Yellow Sea , showing that the US does not recognize the Chinese claim to sovereign territory around these islands.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Spiegel article from October 27, 2015, accessed on October 29, 2015

Web links

Commons : USS Lassen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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