 |
||
|
HOME
|
US Navy -
ships
|
US Navy - air
units
|
USMC - air
units
|
International
Navies
|
Weapon Systems
|
Special Reports |
||
|
US Navy - Guided Missile Destroyer DDG 73 - USS Decatur |
||
|
||
| 03/20 | ||
|
Type,
class: Guided Missile Destroyer - DDG; Arleigh Burke
class, Flight II Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, USA STATUS: Awarded: January 19, 1993 Laid down: January 11, 1996 Launched: November 8, 1996 Commissioned: August 29, 1998 IN SERVICE Homeport: Naval Base San Diego, California Namesake: Commodore Stephen Decatur (1779-1820) Ships Motto: IN PURSUIT OF PEACE Technical Data: see: INFO > Arleigh Burke class Guided Missile Destroyer - DDG |
||
| images | ||
 returning to San Diego Naval Base, California - April 2019  Andaman Sea - February 2019  Andaman Sea - February 2019  Arabian Sea - December 2018  Arabian Sea - December 2018  Arabian Sea - December 2018  South China Sea - October 2016  Sea of Japan - September 2016  Mk-45 gun fire exercise - East China Sea - August 2016  South China Sea - July 2016  vertical replenishment (VERTREP) - South China Sea - July 2016  Singapore - July 2016  Mk-45 gun fire exercise off the Korean Peninsula - May 2016  Busan, Republic of Korea - May 2016  Busan, Republic of Korea - May 2016  Busan, Republic of Korea - May 2016  Busan, Republic of Korea - May 2016  departing San Diego, California - April 2016  a RIM-161 Standard Missile SM-3 Block 1A was fired from the forward Mk-41 VLS - Pacific Ocean - September 2013  a RIM-161 Standard Missile SM-3 Block 1A was fired from the forward Mk-41 VLS - Pacific Ocean - September 2013  returning to San Diego, California - April 2013  returning to San Diego, California - April 2013  Chittagong, Bangladesh - September 2012  Bay of Bengal - September 2012  Bay of Bengal - September 2012  ship's helm - Bay of Bengal - September 2012  Pacific Ocean - June 2012  maintenance at Naval Base San Diego, California - August 2011  Chennai, India - March 2011  departing Naval Base San Diego, California - September 2010  Pacific Ocean - April 2008  returning to Naval Base San Diego, California - July 2007  a RIM-161 Standard Missile SM-3 Block 1A was fired from the forward Mk-41 VLS - Pacific Ocean - June 2007  a RIM-161 Standard Missile SM-3 Block 1A was fired from the forward Mk-41 VLS - Pacific Ocean - June 2007  a RIM-161 Standard Missile SM-3 Block 1A was fired from the forward Mk-41 VLS - Pacific Ocean - June 2007  returning to Naval Base San Diego, California - July 2006  Pacific Ocean - July 2006  Pacific Ocean - July 2006  Pacific Ocean - July 2006  Pacific Ocean - July 2006  Hong Kong - June 2006  Arabian Sea - March 2006  departing Naval Base San Diego, California - January 2006  Naval Base San Diego, California - November 2005  returning to Naval Base San Diego, California - March 2004  returning to Naval Base San Diego, California - March 2004  departing Naval Base San Diego, California - August 2003  Dili, East Timor - May 2002  departing Bath Iron Works, Maine - 1998 |
||
|
USS Decatur (DDG 73): Decatur was commissioned on 19 June 1998 in Bath, Maine, with the official ceremony taking place 29 August 1998, at the Tom McCall Waterfront Park in Portland, Oregon. The guided missile destroyer arrived at her new home port of San Diego September 4th, 1998. She spent the remainder of the year conducting acoustic trials and combat system evaluations. Decatur then spent three months in a post-shakedown availability in the Southwest Marine Yard. In April 1999, the warship conducted a short cruise to the Northwest, visiting Decatur Island, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia, before returning to San Diego in early May. After a second visit to Washington in August, Decatur sent a boarding team of Damage Control Experts to assist MV Gardenia Ace - a car carrier - which had suffered a fire in her engine room. Upon completion of her final missile tests and sea trials, Decatur commenced her first western Pacific deployment on 7 January 2000. After stopping at Pearl Harbor to load Tomahawk land-attack missiles, the guided missile destroyer proceeded to the Yellow Sea for Exercise Sharem 2000 - a joint U.S. and South Korean naval exercise - in late January. On 30 January, the warship visited Chinhae, South Korea, and over the next two weeks also stopped at Yokosuka and Nagasaki, Japan. She then sailed south through the Taiwan Strait, made a three-day port visit to Hong Kong, and then commenced a South China Sea exercise with units of the Philippine Navy. In February 2001, Decatur began various battle group and missile training off the West Coast. Following the terrorist plane hijackings and crashes in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania on 11 September, the destroyer put to sea for Operation Noble Eagle off the coast of the San Francisco Bay Area. Returning to San Diego on 23 September, the warship spent seven weeks preparing for her deployment with the John C. Stennis battle group on 12 November. Between 17 December 2001 and 16 April 2002, Decatur escorted the Peleliu Amphibious Ready Group - during which time her security team boarded three merchant ships, including one non-compliant boarding of M/V Francisco Dagohoy on 10 April - in support of Maritime Interdiction Operations. Decatur returned to San Diego on June 8th, 2002. Decatur departed on her third deployment overall, and second deployment to the Persian Gulf, in August 2003. She made stops in Pearl Harbor and Singapore before arriving in the Persian Gulf. In December 2003, Decatur seized a 40-foot (12 m) dhow on 15 December, discovering an estimated two tons of narcotics allegedly linked to an al-Qaeda smuggling operation. The drugs had an estimated street value of 8 to 10 million dollars. In May 2004, Decatur entered dry-dock, her first dry-dock period since construction. In January 2006, Decatur departed for her fourth deployment (third to the Persian Gulf) as part of a Carrier Strike Group, led by the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan. Throughout the deployment, she conducted Maritime Security Operations in the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf; participated in three major anti-submarine warfare exercises (including Arabian Shark and Valiant Shield); and as part of the French-led Task Force 473, conducted Arabian Sea operations with the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. On 16 February 2007, Decatur was awarded the 2006 Battle "E" award. In June 2007, Decatur tested her Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System by launching a RIM-161 Standard (SM-3). It was the first such test from a US Aegis destroyer. In May 2008, Decatur departed on her fifth deployment overall, and fourth deployment to the Persian Gulf. She spent a significant amount of time in 7th Fleet, stopping in Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore before proceeding in to the 5th Fleet area for duties. She returned to San Diego in November 2008. Decatur deployed for the sixth time in May 2009, returning to San Diego in November 2009. In December 2010, Commander Shanti Sethi was promoted from Executive Officer to Commanding Officer. She is the 12th female commander in the U.S. Navy. In April 2013, Decatur was sent to the Western Pacific near the Korean Peninsula, to join two other destroyers, John S. McCain and Fitzgerald, in response to growing threats and an increase in belligerent statements and actions by North Korea's leadership. As a show of force and as part of the drills, the U.S. sent bombers and other aircraft (including the B-2 stealth bomber, capable of carrying conventional or nuclear weapons), to the region, and both South Korea and the U.S. pledged to vigorously defend themselves. On 30 September 2018, Decatur and Chinese destroyer Lanzhou were involved in a near-collision when the two ships came within 50 yards of one another in the South China Sea. The U.S. Navy accused Lanzhou of acting "in an unsafe and unprofessional maneuver in the vicinity of Gaven Reef". source: wikipedia |
||
|
Commodore Stephen Decatur (January 5, 1779 - March 22,
1820): USS Decatur (DDG 73) is named for Stephen Decatur, warranted as a midshipman at the age of 19 and grew to be one of the greatest warfighters to serve in the United States Navy, attaining the rank of Captain in the US Navy at the age of twenty-five. USS Decatur (DDG 73) is named for Stephen Decatur, born 5 January 1779 in Sinepuxent, Md. Decatur was warranted as a midshipman at the age of 19 and grew to be one of the greatest warfighters to serve in the United States Navy. He made his first cruise in the frigate United States. Decatur was the youngest man to be promoted to the rank of Captain in the US Navy at the age of twenty-five. Stephen Decatur was in command of the schooner Enterprise at the outbreak of the Tripolitan War, he captured the bomb ketch Mastico on 23 December 1803. He used the Mastico, renamed USS Intrepid, in his daring raid to burn the captured frigate Philadelphia in the harbor of Tripoli on 16 February 1804. He also distinguished himself during the attacks on Tripoli in command of a gunboat division. Promoted to captain, he was assigned command of the USS Constitution, and later, in November 1804, the USS Congress. At the conclusion of the Tripolitan War Decatur negotiated with the Bey of Tunis and returned to the United States in September 1805 with the Tunisian envoy. During the War of 1812 Decatur commanded USS United States, capturing HMS Macedonian in one of the greatest single-ship actions of naval history. He took command of USS President at New York and attempted to slip through the blockade. A British squadron of five heavy ships engaged USS President. After two hours of furious combat the frigate HMS Endymion was silenced but President had suffered such extensive damage that it was impossible to execute an escape. The twice-wounded Decatur reluctantly surrendered, but was paroled, landing at New London 22 February 1815. Stephen Decatur is most noted for his heroism during the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812. Returning to the Mediterranean in 1815, Decatur negotiated a treaty with the Dey of Algiers which ended tribute and exacted full payment for injuries to Americans, then concluded similar agreements with the Bey of Tunis and the Bashaw of Tripoli. He not only put a stop to the practice of tribute in the area, he also received reimbursement from the local governments for the War of 1812. After these accomplishments he was known as the "Conqueror of the Barbary Pirates." From 1816 until 1820, he served as a Navy commissioner, and became a prominent figure in Washington DC’s social scene. Commodore Stephen Decatur died on March 24, 1820, only 41 years old, from a wound sustained in a duel against Commodore James Baron which was fought mostly due to the comments Decatur made during Baron’s court martial 13 years earlier. An excellent shot Stephen Decatur shot Baron in the hip, intending only to wound him, but Decatur was in turn struck fatally in the abdomen which took two days to kill him. He was buried temporarily in Washington, where many notable figures including President James Monroe and 10,000 citizens attended his funeral. His body was finally interred at St. Peters Church in Philadelphia. source: US Navy - - - - - another biography: Stephen Decatur was born in Sinepuxent, Maryland, on 5 January 1779. His father, also named Stephen Decatur, commanded several privateers during the American Revolution and served as a Captain in the young United States Navy during 1798-1801. Young Stephen also joined the Navy in 1798, as a Midshipman, and was active during the undeclared war with France over the next two years. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in 1799. Given command of the brig Argus in 1803, he took to the Mediterranean for war service against Tripoli. Once in the combat zone, Lieutenant Decatur commanded the schooner Enterprise and, on 23 December 1803, captured the enemy ketch Mastico. That vessel, taken into the U.S. Navy under the name Intrepid, was used by Decatur on 16 February 1804 to execute a night raid into Tripoli harbor to destroy the former U.S. frigate Philadelphia, which had been captured after running aground at the end of October 1803. This daring and extremely successful operation made Lieutenant Decatur an immediate national hero, a status that was enhanced by his courageous conduct during the 3 August 1804 bombardment of Tripoli. In that action, he led his men in hand-to-hand fighting while boarding and capturing an enemy gunboat. Decatur was subsequently promoted to the rank of Captain, and over the next eight years had command of several frigates. On 25 October 1812, while in command of USS United States, he engaged and captured the British frigate Macedonian, an action that gained him further acclaim. The strong British blockade kept Decatur in port for most of the rest of the War of 1812, but he was able to break out of New York in the frigate President on 15 January 1815. Captain Decatur was wounded when his ship was captured the next day by a superior enemy force, but he soon recovered and was given command of a powerful squadron. With the war with Great Britain at an end, the United States had decided to deal once and for all with the North African Barbary powers' threat to American commerce. Commodore Decatur sailed his squadron to the Mediterranean Sea in May 1815 and, with the assistance of overwhelming force, persuaded Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli to sign treaties of peace. After returning home, he became a member of the Board of Navy Commissioners in Washington, D.C. In April 1816 he made a toast that would become a standard expression of American patriotism: "Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong." In 1820 the strong-willed and spirited Decatur was challenged to a duel by a brother officer, Commodore James Barron. The contest, which took place at Bladensburg, Maryland, on 22 March 1820, resulted in wounds to both men. Barron survived, but Stephen Decatur died of his injuries shortly afterwards. The U.S. Navy has named five ships in honor of Stephen Decatur, including: USS Decatur (1840-1865); USS Decatur (Destroyer # 5), 1902-1920; USS Decatur (DD-341), 1922-1945; USS Decatur (DD-936, later DDG-31), 1956-2004; and USS Decatur (DDG-73) source: US Naval History & Heritage Command (NHHC)
|
||
| patches + more | ||
  |
||
|
|
seaforces.org |
USN ships
start page | |
