![]() USS Mason on 29 July 2008
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Name | Mason |
Namesake | Newton Henry Mason |
Ordered | 13 December 1996 |
Builder | Bath Iron Works |
Laid down | 19 January 2000 |
Launched | 23 June 2001 |
Commissioned | 12 April 2003 |
Homeport | Mayport |
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Motto | Proudly We Serve |
Status | in active service |
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Class and type | Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer |
Displacement | 9,200 tons |
Length | 509 ft 6 in (155.30 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 (75,000 kW) |
Speed | exceeds 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
Complement | 380 officers and enlisted |
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Aircraft carried | 2 × MH-60R Seahawk helicopters |
USS Mason (DDG-87) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named in honor of the Black crewmembers who served on board USS Mason (DE-529) during the period of racial segregation in the United States Armed Forces.[1]
This ship is the 37th destroyer of her class. Mason was the 21st ship of this class to be built at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, and construction began on 19 January 2000. She was launched and christened on 23 June 2001. On 12 April 2003, a commissioning ceremony was held at Port Canaveral, Florida. She is currently homeported at the Naval Station Mayport in Mayport, Florida.