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Under
the command of Captain Mike Sparks the 9,200
tons warship carries a complement of 32
Officers and 348 Enlisted sailors.
USS
Momsen (DDG-92) is an Arleigh Burke-class
destroyer in the United States Navy, actively
serving as of 2007.
Momsen
is the twenty-sixth destroyer of the Arleigh
Burke class to be built by Bath Iron Works.
She
is named after Vice Admiral Charles B. Momsen
of Flushing, Queens, New York (1896-1967).
Vice
Admiral Momsen made many contributions to the
navy such as the invention of the Momsen Lung
when he was assigned to the Bureau of
Construction and Repair.
Momsen
was also involved in the first successful
rescue of a crew of a sunken submarine and
subsequently supervised the salvage of the
ship (USS Squalus (SS-192)).
Momsen's
keel was laid on 16 November 2001. She
was launched on 19 July 2003, sponsored by the
Admiral's daughter, Evelyn Momsen Hailey.
Momsen
was commissioned on 28 August 2004, at Panama
City, Florida, with Commander Edward Kenyon as
her first captain. |