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USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG-54) - Definition and Overview |
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| Career
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| Ordered:
| 13 December 1988
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| Laid down:
| 12 March 1991
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| Launched:
| 16 May 1992
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| Commissioned:
| 19 March 1994
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| Decommissioned:
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| Status:
| Active in service as of 2005.
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| Homeport:
| Yokosuka, Japan
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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement:
| 8,315 tons
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| Length:
| 505 ft
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| Beam:
| 66 ft
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| Draught:
| 31 ft
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| Propulsion:
| 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp
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| Speed:
| 30+ knots
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| Range:
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| Complement:
| 337 officers and enlisted
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| 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 in, 2 x 25 mm, 4 x 12.7 mm guns, 2 x Phalanx CIWS
2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
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| Aircraft:
| 1 SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter can be embarked
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| Motto:
| Prudens Potens Patria - Judicious Power for Country
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USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG-54) is the fourth Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer. Built by Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, she was commissioned on 10 December 1994. Curtis Wilbur was named for Curtis D. Wilbur, the forty-third Secretary of the Navy and is homeported in Yokosuka, Japan.
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This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register.
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