USS Preble (DDG-88)

Overview
Order	December 13, 1996
Keel laying	June 22, 2000
Launch	June 1, 2001
1. Period of service
Commissioning	November 9, 2002
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 1 Phalanx CIWS 2 25 mm guns

The USS Preble (DDG-88) is a destroyer in the United States Navy and belongs to the Arleigh Burke class .

history

The DDG-88 was commissioned at the end of 1996 and laid down at Ingalls Shipbuilding in mid-2000 . After less than a year in dry dock, the ship was launched on June 1, 2001 and was named after Commodore Edward Preble . The final equipment followed by November 9, then the shipyard's test drives, and finally the Preble was officially put into service. The ship spent the time up to the end of 2003 with further tests and the testing of its weapon systems.

The Preble spent most of 2004 on an emergency voyage; it had run from its home port of San Diego to the Persian Gulf , where it protected the oil terminals of Basra and Khawr Al Amaya from attacks by insurgents. The mission ended on December 17th.

In 2008 she doubled the sister ship USS Kidd (DDG-100) for the filming of Transformers - Revenge .

In 2007 the Preble was part of the combat group around the USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) during exercise Valiant Shield , and in 2009 it was deployed with this in the Western Pacific. In March 2011, the ship was sent to the side of the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) off the coast of Japan to stand by for emergency aid after the Tōhoku earthquake .

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

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

• Entry in the Naval Vessel Register (Engl.)
• Official Homepage (Engl.)