USS Carney (DDG-64)
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| Ordered: | 16 January 1991 |
| Laid down: | 3 August 1993 |
| Launched: | 23 July 1994 |
| Commissioned: | 13 April 1996 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Status: | Template:Active in service |
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| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 8,315 tons |
| Length: | 505 ft (154 m) |
| Beam: | 66 ft (20 m) |
| Draught: | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW) |
| Speed: | 30+ knots |
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| 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: | Resolute, Committed, Successful |
USS Carney (DDG-64) is 14th Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. The ship is the first to be named after Admiral Robert Carney who served as Chief of Naval Operations during the Eisenhower administration. She was laid down 3 August, 1993 at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. She was launched 23 July, 1994 with Betty Tausig, daughter of Admiral Carney, as sponsor. She was placed in commission 8 June, 1996 and as of 2005 is homeported in Mayport, Florida.
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History
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Carney was assigned to Destroyer Squadron Fourteen prior to commissioning. Carney transferred to Destroyer Squadron Twenty Four in September of 1998. Her first deployment was to the Mediterranean Sea in 1997 and 1998 as part of the USS George Washington (CVN-73) battle group. In 1999 Carney deployed again to the Mediterranean setting a milestone as the first United States Navy ship to operate in a bilateral United States-Japan Naval Exercise to be conducted in the Mediterranean Sea. In May of 2001 Carneyparticipated in Fleet Week in New York. In February of 2002 Carney operated as part of the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) battle group while conducting phase one of technical evaluations of Cooperative Engagement Capability systems in the waters of Puerto Rico. Phase two of these evaluations were then conducted in the Virginia Capes operating area. She deployed to the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf in 2002 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. On 10 June, 2002 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld visited the ship in Manama, Bahrain. In December of 2003 Carney participated in a Vandel Exercise testing the capability to intercept hostile missiles with the ship’s missiles. On 13 August, 2004 Carney put to sea from Mayport in order to avoid the effects of Hurricane Charley.
Ship's crest
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External links
- Official website (http://www.carney.navy.mil/)
- Naval Vessel Register entry for USS Carney (http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/DDG64.htm)
- combatindex.com: USS Carney (http://combatindex.com/hardware/detail/sea/ddg64_detail.html)
- navsource.org: USS Carney (http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/01064.htm)
- united-states-navy.com: USS Carney (http://www.united-states-navy.com/dd/ddg64.htm)
References
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register.
| Arleigh Burke-class destroyer |
| Flight I ships: Arleigh Burke | Barry | John Paul Jones | Curtis Wilbur | Stout | John S. McCain | Mitscher | Laboon | Russell | Paul Hamilton | Ramage | Fitzgerald | Stethem | Carney | Benfold | Gonzalez | Cole | The Sullivans | Milius | Hopper | Ross |
| Flight II ships: Mahan | Decatur | McFaul | Donald Cook | Higgins | O'Kane | Porter |
| Flight IIA ships: 5"/54 variant: Oscar Austin | Roosevelt | 5"/62 variant: Winston S. Churchill | Lassen | Howard | Bulkeley | McCampbell | Shoup | Mason | Preble | Mustin | Chafee | Pinckney | Momsen | Chung-Hoon | Nitze | James E. Williams | Bainbridge | Halsey | Forrest Sherman | Farragut | Kidd | Gridley | Sampson | Truxtun | Sterett | Dewey |
| List of destroyers of the United States Navy List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy |