USS Truxtun (DDG-103) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer currently in service with the United States Navy. She is named for American Naval hero, Commodore Thomas Truxtun[2] (1755–1822), one of the first six commanders appointed by George Washington to the newly formed U.S. Navy. She is the sixth U.S. naval warship to bear his name. Truxtun's keel was laid down on 11 April 2005. During construction at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, she suffered a major electrical fire on 20 May 2006, engulfing two levels and causing damage estimated to be worth millions of dollars.[4] She was launched on 17 April 2007,[1] then christened on 2 June 2007 in Pascagoula,[5] with Truxtun descendants Susan Scott Martin and Carol Leigh Roelker serving as sponsors,[6] and commissioned on 25 April 2009 in Charleston, South Carolina. As of July 2020 the ship is part of Destroyer Squadron 26 based out of Naval Station Norfolk.[7]

USS Truxtun on 10 December 2011
History
United States
Name	Truxtun
Namesake	Thomas Truxtun
Awarded	13 September 2002[1]
Builder	Ingalls Shipbuilding[1]
Laid down	11 April 2005[1]
Launched	17 April 2007[1]
Christened	2 June 2007
Acquired	24 October 2008[1]
Commissioned	25 April 2009[2]
Homeport	Norfolk[1]
Identification	MMSI number: 303882000 Callsign: NTRX Hull number: DDG-103
Motto	Pursue Attack Vanquish
Status	in active service
Notes
General characteristics
Class and type	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement	9,200 tons[1]
Length	510 ft (160 m)[1]
Beam	59 ft (18 m)[1]
Draft	31 ft (9.4 m)[1]
Propulsion	2 × Shafts[3]
Speed	>30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)[3]
Range	4,400 nautical miles at 20 knots (8,100 km at 37 km/h)
Complement	380[1]
Sensors and processing systems	AN/SPY-1D radar AN/SPS-67(V)2 surface-search radar AN/SPS-64(V)9 surface-search radar AN/SQS-53C sonar array AN/SQQ-28 LAMPS III shipboard system
Electronic warfare & decoys	AN/SLQ-32 Electronic Warfare Suites AN/SLQ-25 Nixie Torpedo Countermeasures MK 36 Mod 12 Decoy Launching Systems MK 53 Nulka Decoy Launching Systems AN/SLQ-49 Chaff Buoys
Armament	1 × 5 inch (127 mm)/62 caliber Mk 45 Mod 4 naval gun 2 × 25 mm Mk 38 Autocannons 4 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) machine guns 1 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 2 × Mk 32 triple torpedo tubes for Mk 46 torpedoes 96-cell Mk 41 VLS for: RIM-66 Standard Missile 2 BGM-109 Tomahawk RUM-139 VL-ASROC missiles
Aircraft carried	2 x SH-60 Seahawk helicopters

Ship history

On March 22, 2009 Truxtun answered distress call, after the 45-foot sailing vessel Calypso Queen reported a broken mast and sail, as well as electrical and mechanical casualties in the Gulf of Mexico. The crew, a man and a woman, were transferred to Truxtun and required no medical assistance.[{Cn]}

In 2012, the US Navy contracted with L3 Technologies to develop a fuel-efficient hybrid electric drive train for the Flight IIA Arleigh Burke guided missile destroyers. The system proposed used a pre-existing quill drive on the reduction gearbox, allowing an electric motor to drive the ships up to 13 knots. Truxtun was fitted with the permanent magnet motor system in 2012, under a research and development contract with General Atomics.[8] In March 2018, the US Navy announced that the trial program to install hybrid electric drives in 34 destroyers would be cancelled leaving Truxtun as the only ship so fitted.[9]

On 6 March 2014, Truxtun departed Greece and sailed to the Black Sea to conduct training with the Romanian and Bulgarian navies. On 5 March 2014, Turkish authorities gave permission to a U.S. Navy warship to pass through the Bosphorus Straits.^{[citation needed]} The deployment of Truxtun, along with sister ship Donald Cook, to the Black Sea was intended as a "strategic reassurance" for former Soviet republics and satellite states concerned about the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation[10][11]

On 10 August 2020, Truxtun completed a deployment with the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group, without any port calls, that lasted for almost seven months.[12]

In popular culture

Truxtun was seen in the feature film Captain Phillips, standing in for USS Bainbridge.[13]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to USS Truxtun (DDG-103).

• Official ship's site
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