USS Lassen (DDG-82)
The Lassen 2003 at a quick turn |
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Overview | |
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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 |
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
Web links
- Entry in the Naval Vessel Register (Engl.)
- official website (English).