Cmdr. Daniel Hancock, a 2002 graduate of the USA Naval Academy, is the commanding officer of the ship and leads the core crew of 32 officers and 297 enlisted personnel. The ship was constructed by Ingalls Shipbuilding is a shipyard positioned in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The ship is sort of 510 toes lengthy, has a beam of 59 toes, and a navigational draft of 33 toes. 4 Basic Electrical LM 2500-30 gasoline generators and two shafts energy the ship, making it able to velocity in extra of 30 knots.
The ship is known as in honor of the late U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Frank E. Petersen Jr., who was the primary Black aviator and common officer within the Marine Corps.
The ship’s motto, “Into the Tiger’s Jaw,” is a phrase utilized by Lieutenant Basic Petersen many occasions in his life and conveys the unbridled spirit confronting and overcoming social injustices and prejudices in addition to braveness and bravado in fight. It additionally served because the title of Petersen’s autobiography.
Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) class guided missile destroyers present a variety of warfighting capabilities in multi-threat air, floor, and subsurface environments. These ships reply to Low Depth Battle/Coastal and Littoral Offshore Warfare (LIC/CALOW) situations in addition to open-ocean battle independently or as items of Service Strike Teams (CSG), Floor Motion Teams (SAG), and Expeditionary Strike Teams (ESG).
Following commissioning, Frank E. Petersen Jr. will likely be homeported at Hawaii’s Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.
