USS Pinckney (DDG-91)
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| Missing image USSPinckneyDDG-91.jpg USS Pinckney (foreground) with Spanish frigate Almirante Juan de Borbon (F102) USS Pinckney (foreground) sails alongside the Spanish frigate Almirante Juan de Borbon. | |
| Career | 
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| Ordered: | 6 March 1998 |
| Laid down: | 16 July 2001 |
| Launched: | 26 June 2002 |
| Commissioned: | 29 May 2004 |
| Status: | Template:Active in service |
| Homeport: | NS San Diego, California |
| 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: | Proud to Serve |
USS Pinckney (DDG-91) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named for Cook First Class William Pinckney (1915–1975), who received the Navy Cross for his courageous rescue of a fellow crewmember onboard Enterprise (CV-6) during the Battle of Santa Cruz.
Pinckney was laid down on 16 July 2001 by Ingalls Shipbuilding, at Pascagoula, Miss.; launched on 26 June 2002; and commissioned on 29 May 2004 at CBC Port Hueneme.
As of 2005, Pinckney is captained by CDR James J. Malloy, homeported at NS San Diego, and assigned to Destroyer Squadron 1.
External links
- USS Pinckney official website (http://www.pinckney.navy.mil/)
- navsource.org: USS Pinckney (http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/01091.htm)
- navysite.de: USS Pinckney (http://www.navysite.de/dd/ddg91.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 |