USS Paul Hamilton (DDG-60)

For other ships of the same name, see USS Paul Hamilton.

History
USS Paul Hamilton returns to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
United States
Name:	USS Paul Hamilton
Namesake:	Paul Hamilton
Ordered:	22 February 1990
Builder:	Bath Iron Works
Laid down:	24 August 1992
Launched:	24 July 1993
Commissioned:	27 May 1995
Homeport:	Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Motto:	The Courage to Prevail
Status:	in active service, as of 2016
Badge:
General characteristics
Class & type:	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement:	Light: approx. 6,800 long tons (6,900 t) Full: approx. 8,900 long tons (9,000 t)
Length:	505 ft (154 m)
Beam:	66 ft (20 m)
Draft:	31 ft (9.4 m)
Propulsion:	4 General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, two shafts, 100,000 total shaft horsepower (75 MW)
Speed:	>30 knots (56 km/h)
Range:	4,400 nautical miles at 20 knots (8,100 km at 37 km/h)
Complement:	33 commissioned officers 38 chief petty officers 210 enlisted personnel
Sensors and processing systems:	AN/SPY-1D 3D Radar AN/SPS-67(V)2 Surface Search Radar AN/SPS-73(V)12 Surface Search Radar AN/SPG-62 Fire Control Radar AN/SQS-53C Sonar Array AN/SQR-19 Tactical Towed Array Sonar AN/SQQ-28 LAMPS III Shipboard System
Electronic warfare & decoys:	AN/SLQ-32(V)2 Electronic Warfare System AN/SLQ-25 Nixie Torpedo Countermeasures MK 36 MOD 12 Decoy Launching System AN/SLQ-39 CHAFF Buoys
Armament:	1 × 29 cell, 1 × 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launching systems with 90 × RIM-156 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-ASROC missiles 2 x Mk 141 Harpoon Missile Launcher SSM 1 × Mark 45 5/54 in (127/54 mm) 2 × 25 mm chain gun 4 × .50 caliber (12.7 mm) guns 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 2 × Mk 32 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried:	1 Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk helicopter can be embarked

USS Paul Hamilton (DDG-60) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy currently in service. The ship is named after Paul Hamilton, the third United States Secretary of the Navy,

Constructed at Bath Iron Works (BIW) in Bath, Maine, Paul Hamilton was commissioned in Charleston, South Carolina. The destroyer was transferred to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii after her commissioning.

In July 2015, she along with the Royal Navy's HMS Duncan, participated in airstrikes against ISIL.^[1]

References

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

↑ http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2015/july/07/150707-duncan-joins-us-carrier-on-operations

Photos

Left side view of the USS Hamilton at the Manila Port Harbor
Rear view of the USS Hamilton at the Manila Port Harbor
An AN/SPY-1 Antenna of the USS Hamilton
The main mast of the USS Hamilton
Side view of the Phalanx CIWS of the USS Hamilton
Front view of the Phalanx CIWS of the USS Hamilton
Side view of the Mk 141 and Mk 32 launchers of the USS Hamilton
Rear view of the Mk 141 and Mk 32 launchers of the USS Hamilton
Side view of the Mk 45 main gun of the USS Hamilton

External links

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Official USS Paul Hamilton (DDG-60) website

Arleigh Burke-class destroyers

Flight I ships

Flight II ships

Flight IIA ships

5"/54 variant	Oscar Austin Roosevelt

5"/62 variant	Winston S. Churchill Lassen Howard Bulkeley McCampbell Shoup Mason Preble Mustin Chafee Pinckney Momsen Chung-Hoon Nitze James E. Williams Bainbridge Halsey Forrest Sherman Farragut Kidd Gridley Sampson Truxtun Sterett Dewey Stockdale Gravely Wayne E. Meyer Jason Dunham William P. Lawrence Spruance Michael Murphy John Finn Ralph Johnson Rafael Peralta Thomas Hudner Paul Ignatius Daniel Inouye Delbert D. Black

Preceded by: Kidd class
Followed by: Zumwalt class

List of destroyers of the United States Navy

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