USS Sampson (DDG-102)

USS Sampson (DDG-102) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. Funding for the ship was authorized in 2002. Her keel was laid on 20 March 2005. She was christened on 16 September 2006 and commissioned in 2007. She is the fourth U.S. Navy ship named to honor Rear Admiral William T. Sampson.

For other ships with the same name, see USS Sampson.

USS Sampson (DDG-102)
USS Sampson at sea
History
United States
Name: USS Sampson
Namesake: Rear Admiral William T. Sampson
Ordered: 13 September 2002
Builder: Bath Iron Works
Laid down: 20 March 2005
Launched: 16 September 2006
Commissioned: 3 November 2007
Homeport: Everett, Washington
Identification:
Motto: "Through Courage and Arms"
Status: in active service
Badge:
General characteristics
Class and type: Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement: 9,200 tons
Length: 509 ft 6 in (155.30 m)
Beam:   66 ft (20 m)
Draft:   31 ft (9.4 m)
Propulsion: 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75,000 kW)
Speed: over 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement: 383 officers and enlisted
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 2 x SH-60 Seahawk helicopters

History
The commissioning of USS Sampson
Sailors man the rails aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Sampson as the ship arrives to help celebrate Portland Fleet Week festivities during the city's 103rd annual Rose Festival. Assisting Sampson is the tug Pacific Escort

She was built by Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. At her christening on 16 September 2006, the principal address was delivered by Senator Susan Collins of Maine, and the vessel was christened by Clara Parsons, great-granddaughter of Rear Admiral Sampson and daughter of William Sterling Parsons, as the ship's sponsor. Commander Philip Roos was the ship's first commanding officer.

She was commissioned in Boston, Massachusetts on 3 November 2007 and home ported in San Diego. Her maiden deployment was from October 2009 to May 2010 to the Western Pacific and Persian Gulf as part of the Nimitz battlegroup.

After Sampson returned from an 8-month maiden deployment, she was back underway from May to August with port visits to the 103rd Portland Rose Festival, Esquimalt, British Columbia to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Royal Canadian Navy, and the parade of ships and then participated in Exercise RIMPAC off the coast of Hawaii. SAMPSON's crew was awarded two Sea Service Ribbons in 12 months.[1]

In August 2011 USS Sampson pulled into South Harbor in Seattle, Washington, to participate in Seattle's Seafair celebration. In September, USS Sampson dispatched an inflatable boat and swimmers to retrieve about 60 bales of assorted drugs from the ocean after the small boat dumped them overboard. After that the ship participated in USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX), in preparation for an independent deployment.[1] In February 2012 USS Sampson departed San Diego for a scheduled deployment to the western Pacific and Middle East. In July, USS Sampson participated in at-sea phase of Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Singapore.[1]

On 29 December 2014, Sampson was dispatched to the Java Sea to search for Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 that disappeared the day before.[2]

In 2016 the ship remained assigned to Destroyer Squadron 23, working with Carrier Strike Group 11.[3] She arrived at her new homeport, Naval Station Everett in Washington, on 26 September 2016.[4]

It was announced on 15 November 2016 that, following a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Kaikoura, Sampson and other navy ships from Australia, Canada, Japan and Singapore would instead proceed directly to the area to provide humanitarian assistance.[5]

The guided-missile destroyer USS Sampson (DDG-102) departed its homeport of Naval Station Everett for a scheduled deployment with the Theodore Roosevelt Strike Group, 3 Oct. 2017.[6] She returned 9 May 2018 after seven months.[7]

Royal New Zealand Navy's 75th Anniversary Celebrations

The Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) invited the United States Navy to send a vessel to participate in the RNZN's 75th Birthday Celebrations in Auckland over the weekend of 19–21 November 2016. Sampson was the first US warship to visit New Zealand in 33 years since the New Zealand nuclear-free zone came into effect and the US suspended its obligations to New Zealand under the ANZUS treaty. New Zealand Prime Minister John Key granted approval for the ship's visit under the New Zealand's anti-nuclear law, which requires that the Prime Minister has to be satisfied that any visiting ship is not nuclear armed or powered.[8]

Awards and decorations
  • The ship is featured in the 2012 film Battleship where she is destroyed and sunk by the Red Stinger during the intense combat in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Hawaii with its sister ship USS John Paul Jones.

References
  1. "USS Sampson (DDG 102)". www.public.navy.mil. US Navy. June 2008. Retrieved 14 March 2020. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. "With no trace of missing AirAsia jet, search resumes over wider area". CNN. 29 December 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
  3. "Carrier Strike Group Eleven". U.S. Navy. 2010. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  4. Winters, Chris (26 September 2016). "USS Sampson arrives at new Everett home port". The Everett Herald. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  5. "US Warship may help rescue stranded Kaikoura tourists". Fairfax Media. 15 November 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2016 – via Stuff.co.nz.
  6. https://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/ddg102/Pages/USS-Sampson-departs-for-deployment-with-Theodore-Roosevelt-Strike-Group-.aspx
  7. http://www.everettpost.com/local-news/uss-sampson-returns-to-port-after-7-month-deployment
  8. "US warship USS Sampson heads to New Zealand". 18 October 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2016 – via New Zealand Herald.

Further reading
  • Soundings, 20 September 2006, Vol. 33, No. 38, pages 12–13 – www.soundingsnews.com.
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