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USS Hewitt fires a Sea Sparrow on 23 March 2000
History
United States
Name
Hewitt
Namesake
H. Kent Hewitt
Ordered
1 January 1971
Builder
Ingalls Shipbuilding
Laid down
23 July 1973
Launched
24 August 1974
Acquired
1 September 1976
Commissioned
25 September 1976
Decommissioned
19 July 2001
Stricken
5 June 2002
Identification
Callsign: NDDW
Hull number: DDG-966
Motto
Be Just and Fear Not
Fate
Scrapped, 9 August 2001
Badge
General characteristics
Class and type
Spruance-class destroyer
Displacement
8,040 (long) tons full load
Length
529 ft (161 m) waterline; 563 ft (172 m) overall
Beam
55 ft (16.8 m)
Draft
29 ft (8.8 m)
Propulsion
4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 80,000 shp (60 MW)
Speed
32.5 knots (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph)
Range
6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
3,300 nautical miles (6,100 km; 3,800 mi) at 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement
19 officers, 315 enlisted
Sensors and processing systems
AN/SPS-40 air search radar
AN/SPG-60 fire control radar
AN/SPS-55 surface search radar
AN/SPQ-9 gun fire control radar
Mark 23 TAS automatic detection and tracking radar
AN/SPS-65 Missile fire control radar
AN/SQS-53 bow mounted Active sonar
AN/SQR-19 TACTAS towed array Passive sonar
Naval Tactical Data System
Electronic warfare & decoys
AN/SLQ-32 Electronic Warfare System
AN/SLQ-25 Nixie Torpedo Countermeasures
Mark 36 SRBOC Decoy Launching System
AN/SLQ-49 Inflatable Decoys
Armament
2 × 5 in (127 mm) 54 calibre Mark 45 dual purpose guns
2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS Mark 15 guns
1 × 8 cell ASROC launcher (removed)
1 × 8 cell NATO Sea Sparrow Mark 29 missile launcher
2 × quadruple Harpoon missile canisters
2 × Mark 32 triple 12.75 in (324 mm) torpedo tubes (Mk 46 torpedoes)
Flight deck and enclosed hangar for up to two medium-lift helicopters
USS Hewitt (DD-966), named for Admiral H. Kent Hewitt USN (1887–1972), was a Spruance-class destroyer built by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries at Pascagoula, Mississippi and launched on 14 September 1974 by Mrs. Leroy Hewitt Taylor and Mrs. Gerald Hewitt Norton, daughters of Admiral Hewitt.
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later that day from the destroyers USS Russell, USSHewitt, USS Laboon, and the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Jefferson City. The missiles hit targets...
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half. USSHewitt, USS Kinkaid and USS John Young at Pearl Harbor in March 1980 USS John Young on 1 May 1981 USS John Young and Tashkent in 1984 USS John...
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The SS Hewitt was a steel hulled bulk freighter built for the J. S. Emery Steamship Co. of Boston, Massachusetts, as the Pacific. (She had one sister ship...
renamed Hewitt, after company investor Abram Hewitt. She served as the USSHewitt during World War I, from 1917 to 1919. In January 1921, Hewitt and her...
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Western Naval Task Force- Morocco, under Rear Admiral Henry Kent Hewitt, flag on the cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31). The Allies organized three amphibious task...
attack on Pearl Harbor, Hewitt joined the Navy, commissioned as an ensign. At first, he served primarily as a gunnery officer on the USS St. Louis in the Solomon...
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