USS Donald Cook (DDG-75)

Career
Ordered:	19 January 1993
Laid down:	9 July 1996
Launched:	3 May 1997
Commissioned:	4 December 1998
Decommissioned:
Status:
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	8,315 tons
Length:	505 ft
Beam:	66 ft
Draught:	31 ft
Propulsion:	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp
Speed:	30+ knots
Range:
Complement:	337 officers and enlisted
Armament:	1 x 29 cell, 1 x 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 90 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 Phalanx CIWS 2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft:	1 SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter can be embarked
Motto:	Faith Without Fear

USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) is an Arleigh Burke class destroyer in the United States Navy.

She was commissioned in 1998. Donald Cook was the subject of the book The Yard by Michael S. Saunders. She is named after Donald Cook, a Vietnam War Prisoner of War who died in captivity. Cook also fired the first Tomahawk missile during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.

External Links

• USS Donald Cook webpage