Ship Specifications
Length 509′-6″ft
Draft 21′-6 3/4″ft
Ship Type Arleigh Burke Class AEGIS Destroyer
Commissioned / Delivered October 13, 2000
Launched April 17, 1999
Owner United States Navy
BIW delivered USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) in 2000. It was the first destroyer to be named for a non-American citizen and is the only US Navy vessel to fly a foreign ensign and have a Royal Navy Officer permanently assigned to the ship’s company.
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