
Our goal was to ask the Navy to name the
DDG-112 (Hull 506),
an Arleigh Burke Class AEGIS destroyer, which is currently
at
Bath Iron Works, Maine.
Bath Iron Works, a General Dynamics company, was awarded a
$562 million contract for the construction of the final Burke-class
destroyer, known as DDG 112, on January 21, 2005. DDG 112,
the 34th
ship of this class built by Bath Iron Works, is expected to
be delivered
to the US Navy by December 2010. The ship is part of fiscal
year
2002-2005 multi-year procurement contract which was originally
awarded
in September 2002. DDG 112 completes a series of 62 ships built
in
three variants
and ![]()
It would have been befitting to name this ship
USS Leahy (DDG-112).
but...it did not happen with DDG-112...
http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=58397
As of 7 May 2008 - DDG-112 was named USS Michael Murphy