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Career
Ordered:	6 March 1998
Laid down:	16 November 2001
Launched:	19 July 2003
Commissioned:	28 August 2004
Status:	Active in service as of 2007
Homeport:	NAVSTA Everett, Washington
General characteristics
Displacement:	9,200 tons
Length:	509 ft 6 in (155.3 m)
Beam:	66 ft (20.1 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)
Range:
Complement:	380 officers and enlisted
Armament:	• 1 × 32 cell, 1 × 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems:   96 × RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk, RUM-139 VL-Asroc, or RIM-162 ESSM missiles • 1 × 5/62 in (127/62 mm), 2 × 25 mm, 4 × 12.7 mm guns • 2 × Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft:	2 × 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 2007.

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, Queens, New York (1896–1967). Vice Admiral Momsen made many contributions to the navy such as the invention of the Momsen Lung when he was assigned to the Bureau of Construction and Repair. Momsen was also involved in the first successful rescue of a crew of a sunken submarine and subsequently supervised the salvage of the ship (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, (who was unsuccessful in her first attempt to break the bottle at the launching). Momsen was commissioned on 28 August 2004, at Panama City, Florida, with Commander Edward Kenyon as her first captain.

As of 2006, Momsen is serving in the Pacific Fleet, homeported in NAVSTA Everett, Washington, and assigned to Destroyer Squadron 9.

The construction of Momsen and Chafee (DDG-90), from initial steelcutting to sea trials, was documented in the Discovery Channel television special "Destroyer: Forged in Steel".

The destroyers were not referenced by name, but their numbers were visible on their prows. What the Discovery channel did not address was that Momsen was also a major step backwards in crew comfort. In a time when the Navy was advertising their new sleeping berths (commonly called racks), in which a sailor could sit upright, Momsen was outfitted with racks that had six (6) inches less sleeping space then those built on 1960's era destroyers of the USS Spruance DD-963 Class. Another step backwards, was the complete removal of ALL crew recreation lounges, what makes these two items of note most remarkable is that they occurred in coincidence with a dramatic reduction in the size of the majority of the equipment installed onboard.

• USS Momsen official web site
• navsource.org: USS Momsen
• nvr.navy.mil: USS Momsen
• DDG-92 Personnel Roster at HullNumber.com

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.