USS Quentin Walsh

USS Quentin Walsh (DDG-132) is a planned United States Navy Arleigh Burke-class Flight III guided missile destroyer, the 82nd overall for the class.[1][2] She will be named for Captain Quentin Walsh (1910–2000), a United States Coast Guard officer who earned the Navy Cross during the World War II.[3]

Graphical depiction of USS Quentin Walsh (DDG-132)
History
United States
Name:	USS Quentin Walsh
Namesake:	Quentin Walsh
Awarded:	21 December 2018[1]
Builder:	Bath Iron Works
Status:	Under construction
General characteristics
Class and type:	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement:	9,200 long tons (9,300 t)
Length:	510 ft (160 m)
Draft:	33 ft (10 m)
Propulsion:	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW)
Complement:	380 officers and enlisted
Armament:	1 × 32 cell, 1 × 64 cell Mark 41 Vertical Launching System, 96 × RIM-66 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles 1 × 5 in (130 mm)/62, 2 × 25 mm Mk 38, 4 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) guns 2 × Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes 1 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS
Aircraft carried:	2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters
Aviation facilities:	Flight deck, Hangar bay

References

1. "Walsh (DDG 132)". Naval Vessel Register. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
2. "SECNAV Names Future Destroyer in Honor of US Coast Guard, World War II Navy Cross Recipient" (Press release). U.S. Navy. 6 June 2019. NNS180312-11. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
3. Cone, Allen (7 June 2019). "U.S. Navy names destroyer after Coast Guard hero Quentin Walsh". UPI Defense News. United Press International. Retrieved 12 June 2019.

• This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.