USS Sampson (DDG-102)
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| Name: | USS Sampson |
| Namesake: | Rear Admiral William T. Sampson |
| Ordered: | 13 September 2002 |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works |
| Laid down: | 20 March 2005 |
| Launched: | 16 September 2006 |
| Commissioned: | 3 November 2007 |
| Homeport: | San Diego, California |
| Motto: | "Through Courage and Arms" |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2024[update] |
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| Class & type: | Arleigh Burke-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 9,200 tons |
| Length: | 509 ft 6 in (155.30 m) |
| Beam: | 66 ft (20 m) |
| Draft: | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW) |
| Speed: | 30+ knots (55+ km/h) |
| Complement: | 383 officers and enlisted |
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| Aircraft carried: | 2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters |
USS Sampson (DDG-102) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was authorized in 2002 and is the fourth U.S. Navy ship named to honor Rear Admiral William T. Sampson.
She was built by Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. At her christening on 16 September 2006, the principal address was delivered by Senator Susan Collins of Maine, and the vessel was christened by Clara Parsons, great-granddaughter of R.Adm. Sampson and daughter of William Sterling Parsons, as the ship's sponsor. Commander Philip Roos is the ship's first commanding officer.
She was commissioned in Boston, Massachusetts on 3 November 2007.
On 29 December 2014, the USS Sampson was dispatched to the Java Sea to search for Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 that disappeared the day before.[1]
In popular culture
- The ship is featured in the 2012 film Battleship where she is destroyed by aliens during intense combat in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Hawaii with the other ship the USS John Paul Jones the same class destroyer.[2]
References
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- ↑ http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/battleship.html
- This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.
- Soundings, 20 September 2006, Vol. 33, No. 38, pages 12–13 – www.soundingsnews.com.
- http://www.sampson.navy.mil
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