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USS Ramage (DDG-61) - Definition and Overview |
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 USS Ramage (bottom) departs Souda Bay in Greece as Ross enters port. |
| Career
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| Ordered:
| 21 February 1990
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| Laid down:
| 4 January 1993
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| Launched:
| 1 February 1994
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| Commissioned:
| 22 July 1995
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| Decommissioned:
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| Status:
| Active in service as of 2005.
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| Struck:
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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:
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USS Ramage (DDG-61) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, named for Vice Admiral Lawson P. Ramage, a notable submarine commander in World War II.
Ramage was laid down 4 January 1993 at the Bath Iron Works in Maine, launched 11 February 1994, sponsored by Barbara Ramage (wife of the admiral), and commissioned 22 July 1995.
On 21 July 1997, Ramage was an escort of the USS Constitution when she set sail in Massachusetts Bay.
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