USS Mitscher (DDG-57)

Sponsorship the way you would do it

Career

Ordered:	13 December 1988
Laid down:	12 February 1992
Launched:	7 May 1993
Commissioned:	10 December 1994
Decommissioned:
Fate:	Active in service
Homeport:	Norfolk, Virginia
General Characteristics
Displacement:	8,315 tons
Length:	505 ft
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:	337 officers and enlisted
Armament:	1 x 29 cell, 1 x 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 90 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 Phalanx CIWS 2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft:	1 SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter can be embarked
Motto:	Seize the Day

USS Mitscher (DDG 57) became the second U.S. Navy warship named to honor Admiral Marc A. Mitscher (1887-1947), famed naval aviator and World War II aircraft carrier task group commander. In 1988 the U.S. Navy contracted with Ingalls Shipbuilding, in Pascagoula, Mississippi to build the seventh ship of the Arleigh Burke class.

USS Mitscher was commissioned on 10 December 1994, and was sponsored by Mrs. Elizabeth Ferguson. Mitscher transferred to her homeport in Norfolk, Virginia later in December 1994, and has since made three Mediterranean deployments and participated in many Caribbean exercises.

See USS Mitscher for other ships of this name.

External Links

Official USS Mitscher Web site

References

This article includes information collected from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships and the Naval Vessel Register.