SHIP's FACTS
The Ship
USS DEWEY DDG 105, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, is the third ship to bear the name of Admiral of the Navy George Dewey.
Ship’s Characteristics
Class and type: Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement: 9,200 tons
Length: 509 ft 6 in (155.3 m)
Beam: 66 ft (20 m)
Draft: 31 ft (9.4 m)
Propulsion: 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines,
2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW)
Speed: 30+ knots (55+ km/h)
Complement: 380 officers and enlisted
Armament: 1 × 32 cell, 1 × 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems,
96 × RIM-66 SM-2, RMG-109 Tomahawk or
RUM-139 VL-ASROC,
missiles 1 × 5/62 in (127/62 mm),
2 × 25 mm, 4 × 12.7 mm guns
2 × Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried: 2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters
Motto: Dynamis Ex Cardias The Will to Fight from the Heart
Dates
DDG 105 keel laying occurred in October 4, 2006.
The ship to be delivered to the Navy in August 2009.
Dewey was christened on January 26, 2008 in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
Dewey is set to be commissioned in 2010, as the 55th Arleigh Burke class destroyer. Mrs. Deborah Mullen is the ship’s sponsor and the wife of Admiral Mike Mullen, current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.