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US Navy - Guided Missile DestroyerDDG 102 - USS Sampson |
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Type,
class: Guided Missile Destroyer - DDG; Arleigh Burke
class, Flight IIA Builder: General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, USA STATUS: Awarded: September 13, 2002 Laid down: March 14, 2005 Launched: September 17, 2006 Commissioned: November 3, 2007 IN SERVICE Homeport: Everett, Washington Namesake: Rear Admiral William Thomas Sampson (1840-1902) Ships Motto: THROUGH COURAGE AND ARMS Technical Data: see: INFO > Arleigh Burke class Guided Missile Destroyer - DDG |
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 USS Sampson launches two RIM-66 Standard Missiles SM-2MR from her Mk-41 VLS during a missile launch exercise - Pacific Ocean - May 2017  Pacific Ocean - May 2017  Everett, Washington - December 2016  Pacific Ocean - November 2016  Pacific Ocean - November 2016  Pacific Ocean - November 2016  Kaikura, New Zealand - November 2016  Mk-45 Mod.4 (5 inch / 62 caliber) gun fire exercise - October 2016  Pacific Ocean - March 2016  Mk-45 Mod.4 (5 inch / 62 caliber) gun fire - February 2015  Java Sea - January 2015  Java Sea - January 2015  Java Sea - January 2015  Java Sea - January 2015  Java Sea - January 2015  Java Sea - January 2015  Changi Naval Base, Singapore - December 2014  Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - November 2014  Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - November 2014  Pacific Ocean - July 2014  during exercise RIMPAC 14 - July 2014  during exercise RIMPAC 14 - July 2014  Mk-45 Mod.4 (5 inch / 62 caliber) gun fire exercise - June 2014  a Missile was launched from the forward Mk-41 Vertical Launching System / VLS during exercise RIMPAC 14 - July 2014  Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - August 2012  Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - August 2012  Honiara, Solomon Islands - August 2012  Changi Naval Base, Singapore - July 2012  Changi Naval Base, Singapore - July 2012  Mk-45 gun and Mk-41 VLS - Changi Naval Base, Singapore - July 2012  Mk-45 Mod.4 (5"/62-caliber) gun fire - July 2012  San Diego, California - February 2012  San Diego, California - February 2012  Seattle, Washington - August 2011  Seattle, Washington - August 2011  Seattle, Washington - August 2011  Seattle, Washington - August 2011  Seattle, Washington - August 2011  San Diego, California - July 2011  Pacific Ocean - November 2010  Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - July 2010  Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - July 2010  Pacific Ocean - July 2010  Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii - June 2010  Portland, Oregon - June 2010  Portland, Oregon - June 2010  Portland, Oregon - June 2010  Philippine Sea - February 2010  South China Sea - February 2010  South China Sea - February 2010  South China Sea - February 2010  North Arabian Sea - December 2009  North Arabian Sea - December 2009  Gulf of Oman - November 2009  Gulf of Oman - November 2009  Gulf of Oman - November 2009  Gulf of Oman - November 2009  Gulf of Oman - November 2009  Indian Ocean - September 2009  Pacific Ocean - August 2009  Pacific Ocean - August 2009  commissioning ceremony - Boston, Massachusetts - November 3, 2007  construction photos out of the PCU/DDG-102 website        |
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DDG-102 USS Sampson: USS Sampson (DDG 102) was laid down 20 March 2005, launched 16 September 2006 and commissioned in Boston, Massachusetts on 3 November 2007 with Cmdr. Philip Roos as the commanding officer. San Diego was assigned as the Sampson’s homeport. In July 2009 USS Sampson departed Naval Base San Diego with USS Nimitz (CVN 68) Carrier Strike Group for its maiden deployment. In March 2010 USS Sampson returned to home after an eight-month underway period in support of maritime security operations in the U.S. 5th and 7th Fleet Areas of Responsibility. In June USS Sampson arrived in Portland, Ore., to celebrate the 103rd annual Portland Rose Festival. June 24 the Samson participated in Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2010. In August 2011 USS Sampson pulled into South Harbor in Seattle, Wash., to participate in Seattle's Seafair celebration. In September USS Sampson dispatched an inflatable boat and swimmers to retrieve about 60 bales of assorted drugs from the ocean after the small boat dumped them overboard. After that the ship participated in USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX), in preparation for an independent deployment. In February 2012 USS Sampson departed San Diego for a scheduled deployment to the western Pacific and Middle East. In July USS Sampson participated in at-sea phase of Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Singapore. 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. 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. Royal New Zealand Navy's 75th Anniversary Celebrations: 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. source: DDG-102 website & wikipedia |
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William Thomas Sampson
 
 
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Rear Admiral William Thomas
Sampson (February 9, 1840 - May 6, 1902): William Thomas Sampson (9 February 1840 - 6 May 1902) was a United States Navy rear admiral known for his victory in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Biography: He was born in Palmyra, New York, and entered the United States Naval Academy on 24 September 1857. After graduating first in his class four years later, he served as an instructor at the Academy, teaching physics. In 1864, he became the executive officer of the monitor Patapsco of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron and engaged in sweeping torpedoes off Charleston, South Carolina. He survived the loss of that ironclad on 15 January 1865, when she struck a torpedo, exploded, and sank with a loss of 75 lives. Following duty in the steam frigate Colorado on the European Station, another tour as instructor at the Naval Academy, and in the Bureau of Navigation of the Navy Department, he served in the screw sloop Congress. He then commanded Alert, practice ship Mayflower, and Swatara while on duty at the Naval Academy. During the next years, he was Assistant to the Superintendent of the United States Naval Observatory, then Officer-in-Charge of the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island. On 9 September 1886, he became Superintendent of the Naval Academy. He was promoted to Captain on 9 April 1889, reported to the Mare Island Navy Yard to fit out the protected cruiser San Francisco, and assumed command when she was commissioned on 15 November 1889. He was detached in June 1892 to serve as Inspector of Ordnance in the Washington Navy Yard and was appointed Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance on 28 January 1893. He assumed command of the battleship Iowa on 15 June 1897. On 17 February 1898, he was made President of the Board of Inquiry to investigate the destruction of the Maine. On 26 March 1898, he assumed command of the North Atlantic Squadron, with the temporary rank of Rear Admiral. Spanish-American War: The United States declared war against Spain on 21 April 1898; and, eight days later, Admiral Cervera's fleet sailed from the Cape Verde Islands for an uncertain destination. Rear Admiral Sampson, in flagship New York, put to sea from Key West. Sampson's early involvement in the conflict would include his supervision of the Cuban blockade, which would last for the duration of the war, as well as the bombardment of the city of San Juan on May 10, 1898. After initially being sent to blockade Havana itself, Sampson would be given orders to intercept Admiral Cevera's squadron, but with only a vague notion of Cevera's current location, he was unable to actively pursue. Awaiting further information on Cevera's whereabouts, Sampson would sail east to San Juan, and would carry out a bombardment on May 10 that would last several days, dealing minor infrastructural damage to the city. After this preliminary bombardment Sampson would help lead a land-sea attack on San Juan, along with General William Shafter, taking the city. On July 1, following the successful invasion, Sampson would return to Cuba, reinforcing the blockades in Santiago and Cienfuegos. On May 29, Elements of Sampson's command would spot Admiral Cevera's squadron moving into Santiago harbor, and the naval presence there would be greatly increased, to prevent Cevera's escape. On the morning of 3 July 1898, Cervera's fleet came out of the harbor. Sampson was ashore at a conference with General Shafter, making plans for a coordinated attack on Santiago. Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley was in command of the Flying Squadron in Sampson's absence and met the Spanish fleet, completely destroying every Spanish vessel in a running sea battle lasting five hours. The next day, Rear Admiral Sampson sent his famous message: "The Fleet under my command offers the nation as a Fourth of July present, the whole of Cervera's Fleet". Sampson's message omitted any mention of Schley's leadership in the battle, leading to a controversy as to who was responsible for the victory. While Sampson also arguably played a significant role in the victory, having laid down the strategic framework and determining the favorable positions of his own forces, it was of course Schley who had actually commanded the fleet during the battle. Schley appealed for a court of inquiry, which he got in 1901. In the Navy, the quarrel was so divisive that the rank-and-file identified themselves as either a "Schley man" or a "Sampson man." The court of inquiry heard testimony in support of Schley by his own men and, despite some criticism of Schley, exonerated the commander of the Flying Squadron. After the Battle of Santiago Bay, Sampson was appointed Cuban Commissioner on 20 August 1898, but resumed command of the North Atlantic Fleet in December. He became Commandant of the Boston Navy Yard in October 1899 and transferred to the Retired List on 9 February 1902. Rear Admiral Sampson died in Washington, D.C., a few months later and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. source: wikipedia |
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