Name USS Sampson Laid down 20 March 2005 Construction started 20 March 2005 Weight 9,348 tons Beam 20 m | Ordered 13 September 2002 Commissioned 3 November 2007 Length 155 m Launched 16 September 2006 Displacement 8.346 million kg Builder Bath Iron Works | |
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Namesake Rear Admiral William T. Sampson | ||
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USS Sampson (DDG-102) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She was authorized in 2002, commissioned in 2007, and is the fourth U.S. Navy ship named to honor Rear Admiral William T. Sampson.
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2006
She was built by Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. At her christening on 16 September 2006, the principal address was delivered by Senator Susan Collins of Maine, and the vessel was christened by Clara Parsons, great-granddaughter of R.Adm. Sampson and daughter of William Sterling Parsons, as the ship's sponsor. Commander Philip Roos is the ship's first commanding officer.
2007
She was commissioned in Boston, Massachusetts on 3 November 2007.
2014
On 29 December 2014, the USS Sampson was dispatched to the Java Sea to search for Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 that disappeared the day before.
2016
In 2016 the ship was assigned to Destroyer Squadron 9, working with Carrier Strike Group 11. She arrived at her new homeport, Naval Station Everett in Washington, on September 26, 2016.
The Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) invited the United States Navy to send a vessel to participate in the RNZN's 75th Birthday Celebrations in Auckland over the weekend of 19-21 November 2016. The USS Sampson will be the first US warship to visit New Zealand in 33 years since the New Zealand nuclear-free zone came into effect and the US suspended its obligations to New Zealand under the ANZUS treaty. New Zealand Prime Minister John Key granted approval for the ship's visit under the New Zealand's anti-nuclear law, which requires that the Prime Minister has to be satisfied that any visiting ship is not nuclear armed or powered.
It was announced on 15 November 2016 that, following a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Kaikoura, the Sampson and other navy ships from Australia, Canada, Japan and Singapore would instead proceed directly to the area to provide humanitarian assistance.