USS Donald Cook
USS Donald Cook (DDG-75), on 23 May 2016 | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Donald Cook |
| Namesake | Donald Cook |
| Ordered | 19 January 1993 |
| Builder | Bath Iron Works |
| Laid down | 9 July 1996 |
| Launched | 3 May 1997 |
| Acquired | 21 August 1998 |
| Commissioned | 4 December 1998 |
| Homeport | Mayport |
| Identification |
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| Motto | Faith Without Fear |
| Status | in active service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Arleigh Burke-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 8,637 long tons (8,776 t) (Full load) |
| Length | 505 ft (154 m) |
| Beam | 59 ft (18 m) |
| Draft | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
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| Propulsion | 2 × shafts |
| Speed | In excess of 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
| Range | 4,400 nmi (8,100 km; 5,100 mi) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement | |
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| Electronic warfare & decoys |
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| Armament |
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| Aircraft carried | 1 × Sikorsky MH-60R |
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USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) is an Arleigh Burke-class (Flight II) Aegis guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy named for Medal of Honor recipient Donald Cook, a colonel in the United States Marine Corps. She is the 14th of the class to be built at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. Construction began on 9 July 1996, she was launched and christened on 3 May 1997, and on 4 December 1998, she was commissioned at Penn's Landing Pier in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
On 16 February 2012, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced Donald Cook was to be one of four ships to be homeported at Naval Station Rota, Spain. In January 2014, the Navy announced that the ship would arrive there in mid-February 2014. In Rota she forms part of Destroyer Squadron 60.