 USS Ramage (DDG-61) |
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| Career (US) |  |
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| Ordered: | 21 February 1990 |
| Laid down: | 4 January 1993 |
| Launched: | 1 February 1994 |
| Commissioned: | 22 July 1995 |
| Status: | Active in service as of 2008 |
| Homeport: | Norfolk, Virginia |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | Light: approx. 6,794.38 tons Full: approx. 8,885.66 tons |
| Length: | 505 ft (153.9 m) |
| Beam: | 66 ft (20.1 m) |
| Draught: | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | 4 General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, two shafts, 100,000 total shaft horsepower (75 MW) |
| Speed: | 30+ knots (56+ km/h) |
| Range: | 4,400 nautical miles at 20 knots (8,100 km at 37 km/h) |
| Complement: | 23 officers, 300 enlisted |
| Armament: | 1 × 32 cell, 1 × 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems with 90 × RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc missiles 1 × 5/54 in (127/54 mm) |
| Aircraft carried: | 1 SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter can be embarked |
| Motto: | Par Excellence |
USS Ramage (DDG-61) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy. The ship is named for Vice Admiral Lawson P. Ramage, a notable submarine commander and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II. Ramage was laid down January 4 1993 at the Ingalls Shipbuilding in Mississippi, launched February 11 1994, sponsored by Barbara Ramage (wife of the admiral), and commissioned July 22 1995. On July 21 1997, Ramage was an escort of the USS Constitution when she set sail in Massachusetts Bay. Ramage was constructed utilizing efficient modular shipbuilding techniques pioneered by Ingalls in the 1970s and enhanced in recent years through the development of Product-Oriented Shipbuilding Technology (POST). These innovative techniques allow a large ship, such as Ramage, to be built in three separate hull and superstructure modules and later joined to form the complete ship. Heavy machinery, such as propulsion equipment, as well as piping, ductwork, and electrical cabling were installed in hundreds of subassemblies, which were joined to form dozens of assemblies. These assemblies were then joined to form the three hull modules. The ship's superstructure, or "deckhouse", was lifted atop the mid-body module early in the assembly process. Ramage's launching was as unique as her construction. The ship was moved over land via Ingalls' wheel-on-rail transfer system and onto the shipyard's launch and recovery drydock. The drydock was ballasted down, and DDG 61 floated free on February 11 1994. She was then moved to her outfitting dock in preparation for the traditional christening ceremony and completion of outfitting and testing.[1]
References
- ^ Official Navy Ramage site. Note: quoted text has since been removed from the site.
External links
- Ramage homepage
- navysite.de info, with pictures
- navsource.org: USS Ramage DDG-61
- DDG-61 Personnel Roster at HullNumber.com
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| 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 | |
| Flight IIA ships |
5"/54 variant: Oscar Austin | Roosevelt |
| List of destroyers of the United States Navy | List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy | |
