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DDG 87 - Mason (HULL 470)

Arleigh Burke Class AEGIS Destroyer for the United States Navy
Length:
505'
Beam: 66'
Depth: 41'-10"
Draft: 20'-8 1/4"
Displacement: 6,605 (light ship), 8,422 (full load)
Other Data:
4 geared gas turbines, 100,000 horsepower, twin screws, twin rudders, steel superstructure, 2 stacks, 1 mast. 

Keel laid January 20,2000 Will carry a complement of 32 officers and 351 enlisted. 

Was the last hull to launch from the ways at Bath Iron Works. The ship's sponsor is the honorable Olympia J. Snowe (US Senate Representative for Maine).

DDG 87 Launch - June 23, 2001






    
DDG 87 Sailaway - March 7, 2003