Notes: Ordered: 26 January 1972
Laid down: 27 December 1974
Launched: 21 October 1975
Commissioned: 4 March 1978
Decommissioned: 20 June 2003
Fate: Placed in reserve at Bremerton in Washington.
Struck: 6 April 2004
General characteristics
Displacement: 8,040 tons full load.
Length: 529 ft (161 m) waterline; 563 ft (172 m) overall
Beam: 55 ft (16.8 m)
Draught: 29 ft (8.8 m)
Propulsion: 4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines; 80,000 shp (60 MW); 2 x shafts.
Speed: 32.5 knots (60 km/h)
Range: 6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h); 3,300 nautical miles (6,000 km) at 30 knots (56 km/h)
Complement: 19 officers, 315 enlisted
Armament:

* 1 × 61 cell Mk 41 Vertical Launching System
* 2 × 5 in (127 mm) 54 calibre Mark 45 dual purpose guns
* 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS Mark 15 guns
* 1 × 8 cell NATO Sea Sparrow Mark 29 missile launcher
* 2 × quadruple Harpoon missile canisters
* 2 × triple 12.75 in (324 mm) torpedo tubes (Mark 46 torpedoes)
* 2 × 6 canister Super Rapid Bloom Offboard Chaff Systems
* 1 × 21 cell RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile launcher

Aircraft: 2 x SH-60B Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters.
Radars:

* AN/SPS 40B/C/D air search
* AN/SPS 55 surface search
* AN/SPS-64(V) Navigation
* Mark 86 GFCS with AN/SPG-60 and AN/SPQ9A
* SWG-3 Tomahawk weapon control system
* Mk 48 MOD 1 TAS Radar
* Mk 78 MOD 1 NATO Sea Sparrow Missile Director
* Mark 91 missile FCS
* Mark 116 ASW FCS

Sonars:

* AN/SQS 53A bow mounted sonar
* SQQ-89(V)5 Sonar Suite

EW:

* AN/SLQ 25 Nixie
* AN/SLQ32(V)3
* SQQ-108 Outboard ELINT

Motto: "Ad Proelium Victoriamque Futuram" (To the Fight and Victory Ahead)