Keel Laid: January 5, 1981
Launched: July 24, 1981
Commissioned: June 26, 1982
Decommissioned: March 9, 2012

Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
Propulsion system: 2 General Electric LM-2500 Gas 
Turbine Engines
Length, overall: 453 feet
Beam: 45 feet 
Draft: 24.6 feet 
Displacement: 4100 tons
Speed: 29+ knots
Crew: 17 Officers 195 Enlisted
Aircraft: two SH-60 Sea Hawk (LAMPS MK III) helicopters
Armament: 
 - 1 MK-75 3"/62 caliber rapid fire gun
 - 1 MK-15 MOD 1 Close-in-Weapons System (CIWS)
 - 6 MK-46 torpedoes (from two MK-32 SVTT triple mounts)