USS Stockdale (DDG-106)

The Stockdale in November 2013
Overview
Order	September 13, 2002
Keel laying	August 10, 2006
Launch	February 3, 2008
1. Period of service
Commissioning	April 18, 2009
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 Stockdale (DDG-106) is a destroyer in the United States Navy and belongs to the Arleigh Burke class . The namesake is Vice Admiral James Stockdale , who fought in Vietnam and received a total of 26 awards.

history

DDG-106 was commissioned in 2002. The keel-laying of the destroyer took place in August 2006, the shipyard is Bath Iron Works . The launch took place in early 2008 and the ship was christened on May 10th. Godmother was Stockdale's granddaughter, Elizabeth Eiseman Stockdale. The handover to the US Navy took place at the end of 2008, the commissioning on April 18, 2009 in Port Hueneme , California. The Stockdale was stationed in the Pacific.

In December 2010, the destroyer's first mission to the Middle East began. There the Stockdale operated as part of the National Missile Defense and on the side of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) .

Web links

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

• Entry in the Naval Vessel Register (Engl.)
• Official Homepage (Engl.)
• Stockdale on navsource.org ( Memento from May 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )