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USS
Paul Ignatius
(DDG-117)
is an
Arleigh Burke
-class
destroyer
of the
United States Navy
. She is named for
Paul Ignatius
who served as United States
Secretary of the Navy
under President
Lyndon Johnson
from 1967 to 1969. Ignatius had previously served as a
lieutenant
in the Navy during World War II.
Paul Ignatius
is the second of eight planned Flight IIA "technology insertion" ships, which contains elements of the Flight III ships.
Paul Ignatius
was launched on 12 November 2016,
[1]
[8]
and was
christened
on 8 April 2017.
[6]
She was
commissioned
on 27 July 2019
Port Everglades
in
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
. The ship was
sponsored
by Ignatius' wife Nancy before her death and that role was taken over by their granddaughter,
Dr. Elisa Ignatuis.
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[9]
Paul Ignatius
is homeported in
Rota
, Spain.
Operational history
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On 28 April 2022,
Paul Ignatius
departed
Mayport
, Florida, for a patrol in the US Sixth Fleet area of operations and a homeport shift to Naval Station Rota.
[10]
On 17 June 2022,
Paul Ignatius
arrived at her new homeport of in Rota, Spain.
[11]
Her
Phalanx CIWS
was moved to the forward mount and she received the
SeaRAM
close-in weapon system on her aft mount.
[12]
In October 2022,
Paul Ignatius
conducted a routine patrol in the
Baltic Sea
, where she was accompanied by the support ship
William McLean
.
[13]
After the
2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage
the ship remained deployed there to safeguard regional energy interests and to guard the areas of the pipeline sabotage.
[14]
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