Career
Ordered:
Laid down:	23 July 1973
Launched:	24 August 1974
Commissioned:	25 September 1976
Decommissioned:	19 July 2001
Fate:	Sold for scrap to International Shipbreaking, Incorporated, of Brownsville in Texas on 9 August 2001.
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	8,040 tons full load.
Length:	529 feet waterline; 563 feet overall.
Beam:	55 feet.
Draught:	29 feet.
Propulsion:	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines; 80,000 shp (60 MW); 2 x shafts.
Speed:	32.5 knots (60 km/h)
Range:	6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km) at 20 knots; 3,300 nautical miles at 30 knots (56 km/h)
Complement:	19 officers, 315 enlisted
Armament:	2 x 5 inch (127 mm) 54 calibre Mark 45 dual purpose guns; 2 x 20 mm Phalanx CIWS Mark 15 guns; 1 x 8 cell NATO Sea Sparrow Mark 29 missile launcher; 2 x quadruple Harpoon missile canisters.
Aircraft:	2 x SH-60B Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters.
Motto:

USS Hewitt, named for Admiral H. Kent Hewitt USN (1887-1972), was a Spruance-class destroyer built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula in Mississippi and launched on by Mrs. Leroy Hewitt Taylor and Mrs. Gerald Hewitt Norton, daughters of Admiral Hewitt.

Hewitt participated in Operation Desert Storm and launched two Tomahawk missiles against Iraq on 4 September 1991. She was decommissioned in 2001.

External Links

• USS Hewitt webpage (http://www.navysite.de/dd/dd966.htm)

Spruance-class destroyer

Spruance | Paul F. Foster | Kinkaid | Hewitt | Elliot | Arthur W. Radford | Peterson | Caron | David R. Ray | Oldendorf | John Young | Comte de Grasse | O'Brien | Merrill | Briscoe | Stump | Conolly | Moosbrugger | John Hancock | Nicholson | John Rodgers | Leftwich | Cushing | Harry W. Hill | O'Bannon | Thorn | Deyo | Ingersoll | Fife | Fletcher | Hayler

Kidd (Modified Spruance)-class destroyer Kidd | Callaghan | Scott | Chandler

List of destroyers of the United States Navy List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy