USS Quentin Walsh
USS Quentin Walsh (DDG-132) is a planned United States Navy Arleigh Burke-class Flight III guided missile destroyer, the 82nd overall for the class.[1][4] She will be named for Captain Quentin Walsh (1910–2000), a United States Coast Guard officer who earned the Navy Cross during the World War II.[5]
Graphical depiction of USS Quentin Walsh (DDG-132) | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | Quentin Walsh |
Namesake | Quentin R. Walsh |
Awarded | 21 December 2018[1] |
Builder | Bath Iron Works |
Identification | Hull number: DDG-132 |
Status | Under construction[2] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Arleigh Burke-class destroyer |
Displacement | 9,217 tons (full load)[3] |
Length | 510 ft (160 m)[3] |
Beam | 66 ft (20 m)[3] |
Propulsion | 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines 100,000 shp (75,000 kW)[3] |
Speed | 31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph)[3] |
Complement | 380 officers and enlisted |
Armament |
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Armor | Kevlar-type armor with steel hull. Numerous passive survivability measures. |
Aircraft carried | 2 × MH-60R Seahawk helicopters |
Aviation facilities | Double hangar and helipad |
References
- "Walsh (DDG 132)". Naval Vessel Register. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
- "QUENTIN WALSH (DDG 132)". Naval Vessel Register. Naval Sea Systems Command, Shipbuilding Support Office. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
- "DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class". Federation of American Scientists. FAS.org. 2 November 2016. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
- "SECNAV Names Future Destroyer in Honor of US Coast Guard, World War II Navy Cross Recipient" (Press release). U.S. Navy. 6 June 2019. NNS180312-11. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
- Cone, Allen (7 June 2019). "U.S. Navy names destroyer after Coast Guard hero Quentin Walsh". UPI Defense News. United Press International. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
- This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.
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