USS Chafee (DDG-90)
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Categories: Arleigh Burke class destroyers | Active destroyers of the United States | United States Navy Rhode Island-related ships
USS Chafee (DDG-90) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in United States Navy. She is named for Senator John Lester Hubbard Chafee (1922-1999), a Marine veteran of Guadalcanal. Chafee was laid down by the Bath Iron Works at Bath in Maine on 12 April 2001, launched on 2 November 2002 and commissioned on 18 October 2003. Chafee is an active unit of the Pacific Fleet and operates out of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii; currently, Chafee is assigned to the Nimitz carrier group. The construction of USS Chafee and USS Momsen, from initial steelcutting to sea trials, was documented in the Discovery Channel television special "Destroyer: Forged in Steel". The destroyers were not referenced by name, but their numbers were visible on their bows. On June 1, 2007, the Chafee fired its main gun at Al-Qaeda suspects in the Puntland region of Somalia. The men were wanted for the 1998 United States embassy bombings.[1] ReferencesThis article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. External linksImage:USS Chafee DDG90.jpg
Chafee in the Pacific Ocean, 2005
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