USS Lassen (DDG-82)
.jpg) USS Lassen underway in the rough seas of the East China Sea, in 2003. | |
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| Name: | USS Lassen |
| Namesake: | Clyde Everett Lassen |
| Ordered: | 6 January 1995 |
| Builder: | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
| Laid down: | 24 August 1998 |
| Launched: | 16 October 1999 |
| Commissioned: | 21 April 2001 |
| Homeport: | Naval Station Mayport, Mayport, Florida |
| Motto: | From Courage, Life |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2016 |
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| 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: | exceeds 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
| Complement: | 320 officers and enlisted |
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| Aircraft carried: | 2 × MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopters |
USS Lassen (DDG-82) is a Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named for Clyde Everett Lassen, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his courageous rescue of two downed aviators while commander of a search and rescue helicopter in Vietnam.
She was homeported in San Diego until she shifted homeport to Yokosuka Naval Base in Yokosuka, Japan in August 2005. In January 2016, she moved to Naval Station Mayport in Mayport, Florida. According to the Standard Navy Distribution List, MArch 2016, at that time she was assigned to the new Naval Surface Squadron 14.[2]
History
On 15 February 2009 at 12:25 pm, Lassen collided with a Japanese 14-ton pleasure boat in Yokosuka harbor. Four people fishing on the pleasure boat, which was at anchor, were reportedly uninjured.[3] On 23 March 2009 the Japan Coast Guard filed a case against both the destroyer's and the fishing boat's captains with local prosecutors for professional negligence that endangered traffic.[4]
On 1 July 2009, Fox News Channel reported that Lassen was tracking the North Korean ship Kang Nam 1, suspected of carrying contraband.
On 27 October 2015 Lassen navigated within 12 nautical miles of Subi Reef, one of seven artificial islands built up by China in the Spratly Islands (commonly called the Great wall of sand) in the past year, the first in a series of "Freedom of Navigation Operation".[5] This is the first time since 2012 that the US has directly challenged China's claims of the island's territorial limit.
Commanding Officers
The commanding officer (CO) of USS Lassen, is the United States Navy officer who is the most senior officer on ship. The CO is the ultimate authority over operations of Lassen and her crew.
List of commanding officers
| # | Name | Start of tenure | End of tenure |
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| 10 | CDR Robert C. Francis[6] | 11 May 2015 | |
| 9 | CDR Michael Adam Smith[6] | 11 December 2013 | 11 May 2015 |
| 8 | CDR Scott Christop McClelland[6] | 7 June 2012 | 11 December 2013 |
| 7 | CDR Walter Clark Wrye IV[6] | 17 December 2010 | 7 June 2012 |
| 6 | CDR Hung Ba Le[6] | 23 April 2009 | 17 December 2010 |
| 5 | CDR Anthony Louis Simmons[6] | 29 November 2007 | 23 April 2009 |
| 4 | CDR Marshall Brent Brown[6] | 31 May 2006 | 29 November 2007 |
| 3 | CDR Kerry Spencer Gilpin[6] | 29 July 2004 | 31 May 2006 |
| 2 | CDR Hugh Denny Wetherald[6] | 5 September 2002 | 29 July 2004 |
| 1 | CDR Sean Eugene O'Connor[6] | 21 April 2001 | 5 September 2002 |
References
- ↑ "Welcome Aboard". USS Lassen DDG-82. US Navy. Archived from the original on 7 January 2008. Retrieved 29 February 2008.
- ↑ https://doni.daps.dla.mil/SECNAV%20Manuals/Administrative%20Organization%20of%20the%20Operating%20Forces%20of%20the%20U.S.%20Navy.pdf. For NAVSURFRON 14 see http://mayportmirror.jacksonville.com/2015-08-05/story/desron-merges-create-surfron-14
- ↑ "U.S. military ship has minor collision with small boat in Yokosuka". Kyodo News.
- ↑ "Port collision sent to prosecutors". Japan Times. 24 March 2009. p. 2.
- ↑ "After Months of Waiting, US Finally Begins Freedom of Navigation Patrols Near China's Man-Made Islands". The Diplomat. October 27, 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/01082.htm
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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