USS Jack H. Lucas during acceptance trials. | |
History | |
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United States | |
Name | Jack H. Lucas |
Namesake | Jacklyn H. Lucas |
Builder | Huntington-Ingalls Shipbuilding |
Laid down | 8 November 2019 [1] |
Launched | 4 June 2021 [2] |
Sponsored by |
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Christened | 26 March 2022 [3] |
Acquired | 27 June 2023 [4] |
Commissioned | 7 October 2023 [5] |
Homeport | San Diego, California [6] |
Identification | Hull number: DDG-125 |
Motto | Indestructible [7] |
Status | in active service |
Badge | |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Arleigh Burke-class destroyer |
Displacement | 9,496 long tons (full load) [8] [9] |
Length | 509.5 ft (155.3 m) [10] |
Beam | 66 ft (20 m) [9] |
Propulsion | 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines 100,000 shp (75,000 kW) [9] |
Speed | 31 knots (57 km/h; 36 mph) [9] |
Complement | 380 officers and enlisted |
Armament |
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Armor | Kevlar-type armor with steel hull. Numerous passive survivability measures. |
Aircraft carried | 2 × MH-60R Seahawk helicopters |
Aviation facilities | Double hangar and helipad |
USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, first of the Flight III variants [11] and 75th overall in the class. She is named after then-Marine Corps Private First Class, later United States Army captain Jacklyn H. Lucas, [12] recipient of the Medal of Honor. On 17 September 2016, she was named by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus. [13]
Jack H. Lucas was launched 4 June 2021, [2] and christened 26 March 2022. [3] The ship was commissioned on 7 October 2023 with the ceremony taking place in Tampa, Florida. [5]
Jack H. Lucas left Ingalls on 12 December 2022 for three days of sea trials before returning to port on 15 December 2022. [14]
On 27 June 2023, the US Navy formally took delivery of Jack H. Lucas from Ingalls. She remained in Pascagoula for another 120 days after delivery to allow the crew to move onto the ship. [4] [15]
On 26 September 2023, Jack H. Lucas left Ingalls for her home port in San Diego, California, with a stopover in Florida. She was commissioned in Tampa Bay on 7 October 2023. [5]
Jacklyn Harold "Jack" Lucas (1928–2008) was a U.S. Marine, and later U.S. Army airborne officer, who received the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Iwo Jima, at the age of 17. He is the youngest Marine and youngest serviceman in World War II to be awarded the United States' highest military decoration for valor. When the keel of USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) was laid in 1997, Lucas placed his Medal of Honor citation in the ship's hull, where it remains sealed. [16]
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