USS Stout (DDG-55)

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Career

Ordered:	13 December 1988
Laid down:	8 August 1991
Launched:	16 October 1992
Commissioned:	13 August 1994
Decommissioned:
Fate:	Active in service
Homeport:	Norfolk, Virginia
Struck:
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:	Courage - Valor - Integrity

USS Stout (DDG-53) is the sixth Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer. Built by Ingalls Shipbuilding, she was commissioned on 13 August 1994.

Stout was named for Rear Admiral Herald F. Stout (1903-1987), who distinguished himself as the Commanding Officer of the destroyer USS Claxton during World War II. Then-Commander Stout aided his task force in sinking five heavily armed, enemy warships to establish a beachhead on Bougainvillea Island.

Stout is homeported in Norfolk, Virginia.

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This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register.