USS Quentin Walsh
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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] |
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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 |
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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 |
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]
References
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ a b c d e "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.