USS Stockdale (DDG-106)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Stockdale.

USS *Stockdale* (DDG-106)
History
USS Stockdale sailing through Californian waters in July 2011
United States
Name:	USS Stockdale
Namesake:	James B. Stockdale^[1]
Awarded:	13 September 2002^[2]
Builder:	Bath Iron Works^[2]
Laid down:	10 August 2006^[2]
Launched:	24 February 2008^[2]
Sponsored by:	Sybil Stockdale
Christened:	10 May 2008
Acquired:	30 September 2008^[2]
Commissioned:	18 April 2009^[3]
Homeport:	Naval Base San Diego
Motto:	"Return With Honor"
Status:	in active service
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type:	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement:	9,200 tons^[2]
Length:	509 ft 6 in (155.30 m)^[2]
Beam:	66 ft (20 m)^[2]
Draft:	22 ft (6.7 m)^[2]
Propulsion:	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW)
Speed:	30 kn (56 km/h)
Complement:	380 officers and enlisted^[2]
Armament:	1 × 32 cell, 1 × 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems 96 × RIM-66 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc missiles 1 × 5 in/62 (127 mm/62) gun 2 × 25 mm guns 4 × 12.7 mm guns 2 × Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes 1 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
Aircraft carried:	2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters

USS Stockdale (DDG-106) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. The third U.S. Navy ship of that name, Stockdale is named after Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale (1923–2005) and is the 56th destroyer in her class.

Construction and career

The ship was authorized on 13 September 2002 and was built by Bath Iron Works. Stockdale was christened 10 May 2008 by Admiral Stockdale's widow, Sybil, and delivered to the Navy on 30 September 2008. She transited the Panama Canal in March 2009; Admiral Stockdale's youngest son and grandchildren joined the ship for the trip.^[4] USS Stockdale was commissioned on 18 April 2009 at Port Hueneme.^[3]

From November 2010 to July 2011, Stockdale performed an eight-month deployment in the United States Seventh Fleet Area of Responsibility. The ship made ports of call at Guam, Sepangar, Malaysia; Sihanoukville, Cambodia; Laem Chabang, Thailand; Singapore, and Chinhae, South Korea.

In July 2012, Stockdale participated in the naval exercise RIMPAC 2012. This included maneuvers in the Kaulakahi Channel (between Kauai and Niihau Islands, Hawaii) near PMRF.

USS Stockdale and CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter

Deployments

November 30, 2010-July 22 2011 Maiden deployment
January 24, 2013-November 08 2013 WESTPAC

Commanding Officers

List of commanding officers

#	Name	Start of tenure	End of tenure
5	CDR Sean Timothy Grunwell^[5]	000000002014-10-30-000030 October 2014	present
4	CDR Bo Johns^[5]	000000002013-05-02-00002 May 2013	000000002014-10-30-000030 October 2014
3	CDR Alexis T. Walker^[5]	000000002011-10-14-000014 Oct 2011	000000002013-05-02-00002 May 2013
2	CDR Jeffrey Albyn Bennett II^[5]	000000002010-04-29-000029 Apr 2010	000000002011-10-14-000014 October 2011
1	CDR Frederick William Kacher^[5]	000000002009-04-18-000018 Apr 2009	000000002010-04-29-000029 Apr 2010

References

↑ "New Destroyer Honors Vietnam War POW and Medal of Honor Recipient". U.S. Department of Defense. 12 January 2006. Retrieved 16 March 2009.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "USS Stockdale". Naval Vessel Register. NAVSEA Shipbuilding Support Office (NAVSHIPSO). Retrieved 16 March 2009.
1 2 Matthew T. Hall (18 April 2009). "Navy commissions destroyer honoring Coronado's Stockdale". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved 18 April 2009.
↑ "Stockdale Hosts Namesake Family for Historic Canal Transit". Navy News Service. 14 March 2009. Retrieved 16 March 2009.
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Arleigh Burke-class destroyers

Flight I ships

Flight II ships

Flight IIA ships

5"/54 variant	Oscar Austin Roosevelt

5"/62 variant	Winston S. Churchill Lassen Howard Bulkeley McCampbell Shoup Mason Preble Mustin Chafee Pinckney Momsen Chung-Hoon Nitze James E. Williams Bainbridge Halsey Forrest Sherman Farragut Kidd Gridley Sampson Truxtun Sterett Dewey Stockdale Gravely Wayne E. Meyer Jason Dunham William P. Lawrence Spruance Michael Murphy John Finn Ralph Johnson Rafael Peralta Thomas Hudner Paul Ignatius Daniel Inouye Delbert D. Black Carl M. Levin Frank E. Petersen Jr. Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee

Flight III ships

Harvey C. Barnum Jr.

Preceded by: Kidd class
Followed by: Zumwalt class

List of destroyers of the United States Navy

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