USS Momsen (DDG-92)
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| Missing image USSMomsen.jpg USS Momsen entering harbor at Panama City, Florida, 20 August 2004. | |
| Career | 
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| Ordered: | 6 March 1998 |
| Laid down: | 16 November 2001 |
| Launched: | 19 July 2003 |
| Commissioned: | 28 August 2004 |
| Status: | Template:Active in service |
| Homeport: | NAVSTA Everett, Washington |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 9,200 tons |
| Length: | 509 ft 6 in |
| Beam: | 66 ft |
| Draught: | 31 ft |
| Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW) |
| 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: | Rise Above |
USS Momsen (DDG-92) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy, actively serving as of 2005.
Momsen is the twenty-sixth destroyer of the Arleigh Burke class to be built by Bath Iron Works. She is named after Vice Admiral Charles B. Momsen of Flushing, Long Island, New York (1896–1967). Vice Admiral Momsen made many contributions to the navy such as the invention of the Momsen Lung when he assigned to the Bureau of Construction and Repair. Momsen was also involved in the salvage of the sunken submarine USS Squalus (SS-192).
Momsen's keel was laid on 16 November 2001. She was launched on 19 July 2003, sponsored by the Admiral's daughter, Evelyn Momsen Hailey. Momsen was commissioned on 28 August 2004, at Panama City, Florida, with Commander Edward Kenyon as her first captain.
She is the Navy’s first ship to carry the Remote Minehunting System, an unmanned craft that seeks out underwater mines to protect the ship and Sailors.
As of 2005, Momsen is serving in the Pacific Fleet, homeported in NS Everett, Washington, and assigned to Destroyer Squadron 9.
External link
- USS Momsen official web site (http://www.momsen.navy.mil/)
- navsource.org: USS Momsen (http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/01092.htm)
- nvr.navy.mil: USS Momsen (http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/DDG92.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 |