USS Chung Hoon
USS Chung-Hoon at her homeport of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in September 2004.
History
United States
Name: USS Chung-Hoon
Namesake: Gordon Pai’ea Chung-Hoon
Awarded: 6 March 1998
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Northrop Grumman, Pascagoula, Mississippi[1]
Laid down: 14 January 2002
Launched: 15 December 2002
Sponsored by: Michelle Punana Chung-Hoon
Acquired: 22 March 2004
Commissioned: 18 September 2004
Homeport: Pearl Harbor
Motto: Imua e na Koa Kai – Go Forward Sea Warriors
Status: in active service
Badge: USS Chung Hoon DDG-93 Crest.png
General characteristics
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 MW)
Speed: 30 kn (56 km/h)
Complement: 380 officers and enlisted
Armament:
1 x 32 cell
1 x 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems
96 x RIM-66 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-ASROC missiles
1 x 5 in (130 mm)/62
2 x 25 mm Mk 38
4 x .50 cal (12.7 mm) guns
2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
1 x Phalanx CIWS
USS Chung-Hoon (DDG-93) is an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis destroyer serving in the United States Navy (USN). Chung-Hoon was named in honor of Rear Admiral Gordon Pai’ea Chung-Hoon (1910–1979), recipient of the Navy Cross and the Silver Star.
The contract to build her was awarded to Northrop Grumman Ship Systems on 6 March 1998, and her keel was laid down on 14 January 2002, at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Incorporated. She was launched on 11 January 2003, sponsored by Michelle Punana Chung-Hoon of Honolulu, Hawaii, Chung-Hoon’s niece, and commissioned on 18 September 2004.[1]
She is part of the Pacific Fleet and homeported in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Chung-Hoon