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USS Pinckney (DDG-91) - Definition and Overview

USS Pinckney (foreground) with Spanish frigate Almirante Juan de Borbon (F102)
USS Pinckney (foreground) sails alongside the Spanish frigate Almirante Juan de Borbon.
Career USN Jack
Ordered: 6 March 1998
Laid down: 16 July 2001
Launched: 26 June 2002
Commissioned: 29 May 2004
Status: Active in service as of 2005.
Homeport: NS San Diego, California
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: Proud to Serve

USS Pinckney (DDG-91) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named for Cook First Class William Pinckney (19151975), who received the Navy Cross for his courageous rescue of a fellow crewmember onboard Enterprise (CV-6) during the Battle of Santa Cruz.

Pinckney was laid down on 16 July 2001 by Ingalls Shipbuilding, at Pascagoula, Miss.; launched on 26 June 2002; and commissioned on 29 May 2004 at CBC Port Hueneme. As of 2005, Pinckney is captained by CDR James J. Malloy, homeported at NS San Diego, and assigned to Destroyer Squadron 1.

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register.


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Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Flight I ships: Arleigh Burke | Barry | John Paul Jones | Curtis Wilbur | Stout | John S. McCain | Mitscher | Laboon | Russell | Paul Hamilton | Ramage | Fitzgerald | Stethem | Carney | Benfold | Gonzalez | Cole | The Sullivans | Milius | Hopper | Ross
Flight II ships: Mahan | Decatur | McFaul | Donald Cook | Higgins | O'Kane | Porter
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

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