![]() USS Hopper at Pearl Harbor on 20 May 2016
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Name | Hopper |
Namesake | Grace Hopper |
Ordered | 8 April 1992 |
Builder | Bath Iron Works |
Laid down | 23 February 1995 |
Launched | 6 January 1996 |
Commissioned | 6 September 1997 |
Homeport | Pearl Harbor |
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Nickname(s) | Amazing Grace [1] |
Status | in active service |
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Class and type | Arleigh Burke-class destroyer |
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Length | 505 ft (154 m) |
Beam | 59 ft (18 m) |
Draft | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
Propulsion | 2 × shafts |
Speed | In excess of 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
Range | 4,400 nmi (8,100 km; 5,100 mi) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
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Sensors and processing systems |
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Electronic warfare & decoys |
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Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 1 × Sikorsky MH-60R |
USS Hopper (DDG-70) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, named for the pioneering computer scientist Rear Admiral Grace Hopper.[5]
Hopper is only the second US Navy warship to be named for a woman from the Navy's own ranks. This ship is the 20th destroyer of her class. Hopper was the 11th ship of this class to be built at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, and construction began on 23 February 1995. She was launched and christened on 6 January 1996. On 6 September 1997, she was commissioned in San Francisco.