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145k | On 04 January 2019 Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer named a future Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer in honor of U.S. Senator Ted Stevens, who represented Alaska from 1968 to 2009. “Senator Stevens was a staunch supporter of a strong Navy and Marine Corps team who served our nation with distinction as a pilot during World War II, and later as a Senator of Alaska,” said Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer. “I am pleased that his legacy of service and dedication to national security will live on in the future USS Ted Stevens.”
Stevens served as a pilot in the Army Air Corps from 1943 to 1946 and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross before being discharged in 1946. Stevens was elected as a state representative in Alaska in 1964, re-elected in 1966, and in 1968 he was appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. In 1970, Stevens was elected to the seat in a special election and was subsequently re-elected five times. He left office in 2009 as the then-longest serving Republican U.S. Senator in history.
Arleigh Burke-class destroyers conduct a variety of operations from peacetime presence and crisis response to sea control and power projection. The future USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128) will be capable of fighting air, surface and subsurface battles simultaneously, and will contain a combination of offensive and defensive weapon systems designed to support maritime warfare, including integrated air and missile defense and vertical launch capabilities.
The ship will be constructed at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls shipbuilding division in Pascagoula, Missisippi. The ship will be 509 feet long, have a beam length of 66 feet and be capable of operating at speeds in excess of 30 knots.
Ted Stevens, United States Senator. Official photo ca. 2005 from Biographical Directory of the United States Congress and Sen. Stevens' press kit. | Dave Wright |
USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128)
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785k | 190103-N-N0101-001 Washington DC, 03 January 2019. An artist rendering of the future Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128). US Navy photo illustration/Released. | Dave Wright |
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926k | 220309-N-N2201-002 Newport News VA, 09 March 2022. The keel of future USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128), the 78th Arleigh Burke-class ship was ceremonially laid at Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding, March 9. During the ceremony, the initials of DDG 128 ship sponsors were traced onto a keel plate. Holding up the keel plate, from left to right, Kari Wilkinson, president, Ingalls Shipbuilding; Capt. Seth Miller, DDG 51 class program manager; and the late Senator’s wife, Catherine Stevens; granddaughter, Laura H. Sexton; and daughter, Susan Stevens Covich.
US Navy/HII photo by Luis Solis | Dave Wright |
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1023k | Ted Stevens (DDG 128) being prepared for launch after being translated from land to the dry dock using translation railcars to support the ship, August 2023.
HII photo | Dave Wright |
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119k | Ted Stevens (DDG 128) in drydock awaiting launch, 09 August 2023.
HII photo | Dave Wright |
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119k | Ted Stevens (DDG 128) in drydock awaiting launch, August 2023.
HII photo | Dave Wright |
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985k | Ted Stevens (DDG 128) being floated out of drydock the day of her launch, 15 August 2023.
HII photo | Dave Wright |
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1008k | Signet Maritime tug Signet Reliance assists Ted Stevens (DDG 128) to pier the day of her launching, 15 August 2023.
HII photo | Dave Wright |
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741k | Lily Irene Becker, the daughter of the late U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, of Alaska, speaks during the christening of Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer Ted Stevens (DDG 128) at HII's Ingalls Shipbuilding division, 19 August 2023.
HII photo | Dave Wright |
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886k | Sean O’Keefe, 69th secretary of the Navy, 10th administrator of NASA and former staff member of Sen. Ted Stevens was the keynote speaker during the christening of Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer Ted Stevens (DDG 128) at HII's Ingalls Shipbuilding division, 19 August 2023.
HII photo | Dave Wright |
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1012k | Ingalls Shipbuilding President Kari Wilkinson, DDG 128 Prospective Commanding Officer Capt. Mary Katey Hayes and Sean O'Keefe watch as ship co-sponsors officially christen Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Ted Stevens (DDG 128) at HII's Ingalls Shipbuilding division, 19 August 2023.
HII photo | Dave Wright |
