USS Chafee (DDG-90)

Career

Ordered:	6 March 1998
Laid down:	12 April 2001
Launched:	2 November 2002
Commissioned:	18 October 2003
Decommissioned:
Fate:	Active in service
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	9,200 tons
Length:	509 ft 6 in
Beam:	66 ft
Draught:	31 ft
Propulsion:	4 x General Electric LM 2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp
Speed:	30+ knots
Range:
Complement:	380 officers and enlisted
Armament:	1 x 32 cell, 1 x 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 96 x RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles 1 x 5 in, 2 x 25 mm, 4 x 12.7 mm guns 2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft:	2 x SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters
Motto:

USS Chafee (DDG-90), named for Senator John Lester Hubbard Chafee (1922-1999), a Marine veteran of Guadalcanal, is an Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyer laid down by the Bath Iron Works at Bath in Maine on 12 April 2001, launched on 2 November 2002 and commissioned on 18 October 2003. USS Chafee is an active unit of the United States Navy and operates out of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register.