USS Pinckney (DDG-91)
 The Pinckney 2006 in front of her sister ship Shoup |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Order | March 6, 1998 |
| Keel laying | July 16, 2001 |
| Launch | June 26, 2002 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | May 29, 2004 |
| 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 Pinckney (DDG-91) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy . The ship is named after Cook First Class William Pinckney, who received the Navy Cross for his service during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands .
history
The Pinckney was commissioned in 1998 and laid down at Ingalls Shipbuilding in July 2001 . The destroyer was launched after less than a year and was finally put into service in May 2004. Home port was San Diego . In the further course of the year, exercises and test drives followed, including with Spanish units of the Álvaro de Bazán class . As the first unit in its class, the ship is equipped with the AN / WLD-1 Remote Minehunting System .
In 2006, the Pinckney first moved to the Pacific, including taking part in the International Maritime Exposition in Sydney , Australia . In 2007 it was deployed during exercise Valiant Shield , and in 2008 during RIMPAC . In 2009 she accompanied the USS Nimitz (CVN-68) as an escort to the Western Pacific, from the end of 2011 the USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) to the Indian Ocean and from the beginning of 2012 to the Pacific. In March 2014, the ship took part in the search for the Malaysia Airlines MH 370 aircraft that had disappeared at the time .
Armament
For defense against approaching missiles, the ship received the RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) anti - aircraft missiles, which are fired from the Vertical Launching System . For further air defense, a close-in-weapon system in the form of the Phalanx MK 15 RAM was subsequently installed behind the aft chimney structure in 2007 , which was not originally intended for construction from DDG 85 (Block IV).
Web links
- Entry in the Naval Vessel Register (Engl.)
- Official Homepage (Engl.)
Individual evidence
- ^ USS Pinckney Returns From Historic Deployment ( Memento November 22, 2006 in the Internet Archive ). US Navy
- ^ Surface Force Ships, Crews Earn Battle "E" . US Navy
- ↑ Pinckney Returns Home , US Navy. October 3, 2007. Retrieved November 4, 2008.
- ↑ Missing Malaysia plane: Search area widened , BBC. March 9, 2014.
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