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USS Gridley (DDG-101)
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| Career | 
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| Ordered: | 6 March 1998 |
| Laid down: | 30 July 2004 |
| Launched: | |
| Commissioned: | |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Status: | Building |
| Struck: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 9,200 tons |
| Length: | 509 ft 6 in |
| Beam: | 66 ft |
| Draught: | 31 ft |
| Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp |
| Speed: | 30+ knots |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 380 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 1 x 32 cell, 1 x 64 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 96 x RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles 1 x 5 in, 2 x 25 mm, 4 x 12.7 mm guns 2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes |
| Aircraft: | 2 x SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters |
| Motto: | |
The fourth USS Gridley (DDG-101) will be the fiftieth Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. Gridley is named after Charles Gridley, recipient of Admiral George Dewey's famous command, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" in the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.
In May 2004, the Secretary of the Navy announced the names of five new Arleigh Burke class destroyers, including Gridley. Her keel was laid in July 2004 at the Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine.
She is scheduled to join the Pacific Fleet.
See USS Gridley for other ships of this name.
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