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USS Porter (DDG-78)
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| Ordered: | 20 July 1994 |
| Laid down: | 2 December 1996 |
| Launched: | 12 November 1997 |
| Commissioned: | 20 March 1999 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Status: | Active in service as of 2007 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 8,400 tons |
| Length: | 505 ft (153.9 m) |
| Beam: | 66 ft (20.1 m) |
| Draught: | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW) |
| Speed: | 30+ knots |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 337 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 1 x 29 cell, 1 x 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 90 x RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles 1 x 5/54 in (127/54 mm), 2 x 25 mm, 4 x 12.7 mm guns, 2 x Phalanx CIWS 2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes |
| Aircraft: | 1 SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter can be embarked |
| Motto: | Freedom's Champion |
USS Porter (DDG-78) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. Porter is named after Commodore David Porter, and his son, Admiral David Dixon Porter. It is one of only a handful of currently commissioned Navy vessels to have sunk another enemy vessel.
On October 28, 2007, she attacked and sunk two pirate skiffs off of Somalia after receiving a distress call from the tanker the MV Golden Nori which was under attack from pirates.[1]. The ship has recently visited the Kenyan Port of Mombasa.[2]
- ^ "U.S. warship sinks two pirate skiffs", CNN, 2007-10-29. Retrieved on 2007-10-31.
- ^ "US Navy in Kenya goodwill mission" by Nick Rankin, BBC News From Our Own Correspondent, 10 November 2007
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.
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