Name Spruance Awarded 13 September 2002 Christened 5 June 2010 Length 155 m Weight 9,348 tons Builder Bath Iron Works | Laid down 14 May 2009 Commissioned 1 October 2011 Launched 6 June 2010 Displacement 8.346 million kg | |
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USS Spruance (DDG-111) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer guided missile destroyer currently in service with the United States Navy. She is the 61st ship in her class.
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Design
Spruance is outfitted with the latest technology. She was the first of the U.S. Navy's destroyers to be fitted with the Gigabit Ethernet Data Multiplex System (GEDMS), manufactured by the Boeing Company. GEDMS provides an Internet Protocol (IP) based backbone for video and data services on the ship. The bridge features touch screen controls and color readouts instead of gauges.
Construction and career
Spruance is the second United States Navy ship (the first being Spruance (DD-963) to be named for Admiral Raymond A. Spruance (1886–1969), who commanded American naval forces at the Battles of Midway and the Philippine Sea. He was later Ambassador to the Philippines.
Spruance's keel was laid down on 14 May 2009. She was christened by the admiral's granddaughter, Ellen Spruance Holscher, on 5 June 2010 in Bath, Maine at Bath Iron Works, where the ship was built at a cost of $1 billion. The completed ship left Bath on 1 September 2011 for her commissioning in Key West, Florida before traveling to her home port of San Diego.
Spruance was commissioned on 1 October 2011 in Key West, Florida with Commander Tate Westbrook in command of the ship.
She sailed from San Diego on her maiden deployment on 16 October 2013, heading for Asia under the command of Commander George Kessler who was succeeded by Commander Daniel Cobian
Spruance returned to Naval Base San Diego on 17 April 2014 following completion of deployments to the Western Pacific Ocean.
Deployments
Commanding officers
The commanding officer (CO) of Spruance is the United States Navy officer who is the most senior officer on ship. The CO is the ultimate authority over operations of Spruance and her crew.