USS Mustin (DDG-89) - Definition and Overview

USS Mustin being pushed into place by a tugboat at Allegheny Pier at Naval Air Station Pensacola.
Career
Ordered:	6 March 1998
Laid down:	15 January 2001
Launched:	12 December 2001
Commissioned:	26 July 2003
Decommissioned:
Status:	Active in service as of 2005.
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	9,200 tons
Length:	509 ft 6 in
Beam:	66 ft
Draught:	31 ft
Propulsion:	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp
Speed:	30+ knots
Range:
Complement:	380 officers and enlisted
Armament:	1 x 32 cell, 1 x 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 96 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 Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft:	2 x SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters
Motto:

The second USS Mustin (DDG-89) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer named in honor of the Mustin family. The contract to build her was awarded to Ingalls Shipbuilding on 6 March 1998. Her keel was laid down on 15 January 2001, she was launched on 12 December 2001, and commissioned July 26, 2003.

General Characteristics

• Overall Length: 511 feet
• Waterline Length: 471 feet
• Extreme Beam: 66 feet
• Waterline Beam: 59 feet
• Maximum Navigational Draft: 33 feet
• Draft Limit: 22 feet
• Light Displacement: 6600 tons
• Full Displacement: 8344 tons
• Dead Weight: 1744 tons
• Hull Material: Steel hull, steel superstructure.
• Number of Propellers: 2
• Propulsion Type: Gas Turbines
• Accommodations: Officers: 32 Enlisted: 348
• Armament:
  • Missiles: Standard surface-to-air missiles and Tomahawk cruise missiles from forward and aft vertical launching systems
  • Close-In Weapons Systems: two Phalanx
  • Antiship: Harpoon missiles
  • Torpedoes: two launchers
  • Gun: one five-inch gun

See USS Mustin for other ships of the same name.

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register.