USS Hopper
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| Career
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| Ordered:
| 8 April 1992
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| Laid down:
| 23 February 1995
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| Launched:
| 6 January 1996
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| Commissioned:
| 6 September 1997
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| Status:
| Active in service as of 2005.
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| Homeport:
| Pearl Harbor
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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement:
| 6750 tons light, 8873 tons full, 2123 tons dead
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| Length:
| 153.9 meters (505 feet) overall, 142 meters (466 feet) waterline
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| Beam:
| 20.1 meters (66 feet) extreme, 17.9 meters (59 feet) waterline
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| Draft:
| 9.7 meters (32 feet) maximum, 6.7 meters (22 feet) limit
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| Complement:
| 23 officers, 24 chiefs, 302 junior enlisted
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USS Hopper (DDG-70), an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Admiral Grace Hopper. The contract to build her was awarded to Bath Iron Works Corporation in Bath, Maine on 8 April 1992 and her keel was laid down on 23 February 1995. She was launched on 6 January 1996 sponsored by Mrs. Mary Murray Westcote, sister of the ship's namesake, and commissioned on 6 September 1997, with Commander Thomas D. Crowley in command.
Hopper is the first warship since World War II, and only the second warship in Naval history, to be named for a woman from the Navy's own ranks.
References
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register.
