uss hopper (ddg-70)

style="text-align: center" colspan="2"\| USS Hopper
tyle="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"\| Career	style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"\|
rdered:	8 April 1992
aid down:	23 February 1995
aunched:	6 January 1996
ommissioned:	6 September 1997
tatus:
omeport:	Pearl Harbor
olspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"\|General Characteristics
isplacement:	6750 tons light, 8873 tons full, 2123 tons dead
ength:	153.9 meters (505 feet) overall, 142 meters (466 feet) waterline
eam:	20.1 meters (66 feet) extreme, 17.9 meters (59 feet) waterline
raft:	9.7 meters (32 feet) maximum, 6.7 meters (22 feet) limit
omplement:	23 officers, 24 chiefs, 302 junior enlisted
ropulsion:	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp
peed:	30+ knots
ange:
rmament:	1 x 29 cell, 1 x 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 90 x RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles 1 x 5 in, 2 x 25 mm, 4 x 12.7 mm guns, 2 x Phalanx CIWS 2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
ircraft:	1 SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter can be embarked
otto:	Aude Et Effice - "Dare And Do"

USS Hopper (DDG-70), an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Admiral Grace Hopper. The contract to build her was awarded to Bath Iron Works Corporation in Bath, Maine on 8 April 1992 and her keel was laid down on 23 February 1995. She was launched on 6 January 1996 sponsored by Mrs. Mary Murray Westcote, sister of the ship's namesake, and commissioned on 6 September 1997, with Commander Thomas D. Crowley in command. Hopper is the first warship since World War II, and only the second warship in Naval history, to be named for a woman from the Navy's own ranks.

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This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register. Hopper DDG-70

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