USS Shoup
United States Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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USS Shoup (DDG-86) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. The ship is named for Medal of Honor recipient General David M. Shoup, the 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps.
USS Shoup in the Gulf of Mexico in 2001 | |
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Name | Shoup |
Namesake | David M. Shoup |
Awarded | 13 December 1996 |
Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
Laid down | 13 December 1999 |
Launched | 22 November 2000 |
Commissioned | 22 June 2002 |
Homeport | Yokosuka, Japan |
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Status | in active service |
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Class and 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 (75,000 kW) |
Speed | exceeds 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
Complement | 310 officers and enlisted |
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Aircraft carried | 2 × MH-60R Seahawk helicopters |
Construction, on the 36th destroyer of her class, began at the Northrop Grumman Ship Systems' Ingalls Operations on 10 November 1998. Shoup was the 16th ship of this class to be built at Ingalls Shipbuilding. Her keel was laid on 13 December 1999 and she was launched on 22 November 2000. Shoup sailed into the Gulf of Mexico for the first of her sea trials on 11 December 2001. The vessel was delivered to the Navy by Northrop Grumman on 18 February 2002 and departed Pascagoula, Mississippi on 22 April 2002. Shoup was commissioned on 22 June 2002 at Port Terminal 37 in Seattle, Washington.