USS Delbert D. Black

USS Jason Dunham, another Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class destroyer.
History
United States
Name: USS Delbert D. Black
Namesake: First Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Delbert Black [1]
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding
Laid down: 1 June 2016[2]
Launched: 8 September 2017[3]
Sponsored by: Ima Black
Christened: 4 November 2017[4]
Commissioned: Expected 2019[5]
Status: Authorized
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type: Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement: 9,200 long tons (9,300 t)
Length: 510 ft (160 m)
Draft: 33 ft (10 m)
Propulsion: 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW)
Complement: 380 officers and enlisted
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters
Aviation facilities: Flight deck, Hangar bay

USS Delbert D. Black (DDG-119) will be an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer of the United States Navy.

Etymology

She is named in honor of Master Chief Petty Officer Delbert Black, the first Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON), who died in 2000. He is remembered for establishing the role of the Navy's senior enlisted leader, and the ship naming is the culmination of a decade of advocacy by MCPONs to honor him with a combatant ship.

History

Delbert D. Black will be the fourth of eight planned Flight IIA "technology insertion" ships, which will contain elements of the Flight III ships projected to begin with DDG-124.

As of September 2017, she is under construction at Ingalls Shipbuilding and was launched on 8 September 2017.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Faram, Mark D. (13 March 2015). "Destroyer named for revered 1st MCPON, Delbert Black". Navy Times. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "Keel Authenticated For Destroyer Delbert D. Black (DDG 119)" (Press release). Huntington Ingalls Industries. 1 June 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  3. ↑ "Huntington Ingalls Industries Launches Guided Missile Destroyer Delbert D. Black (DDG 119)" (Press release). Huntington Ingalls Industries. 12 September 2017. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
  4. ↑ "Huntington Ingalls Industries Christens Destroyer Delbert D. Black (DDG 119)" (Press release). Huntington Ingalls Industries. 4 November 2017. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  5. ↑ LaGrone, Sam (13 March 2015). "SECNAV Mabus Names Destroyer After First MCPON Delbert D. Black". USNI News. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  6. ↑ Team Ships Public Affairs (11 September 2017). "U.S. Navy Launches the Future USS Delbert D. Black" (Press release). Naval Sea Systems Command, US Navy. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
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