page_title: USS Sampson (DDG-102)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: USS Sampson (DDG-102) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Sailors man the rails aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Sampson (DDG 102) as the ship arrives to help celebrate Portland Fleet Week festivities during the city's 103rd annual Rose Festival. Navy warships have been coming to the City of Roses since USS Charleston's visit in 1907, and are considered a highlight of the festival. Assisting Sampson is the Foss tug Pacific Escort.
context_page_description: USS Sampson (DDG-102) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. Funding for the ship was authorized in 2002. Her keel was laid on 20 March 2005. She was christened on 16 September 2006 and commissioned in 2007. She is the fourth U.S. Navy ship named to honor Rear Admiral William T. Sampson.
context_section_description: She was built by Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. At her christening on 16 September 2006, the principal address was delivered by Senator Susan Collins of Maine, and the vessel was christened by Clara Parsons, great-granddaughter of Rear Admiral Sampson and daughter of William Sterling Parsons, as the ship's sponsor.  Commander Philip Roos was the ship's first commanding officer.
  She was commissioned in Boston, Massachusetts on 3 November 2007 and home ported in San Diego. Her maiden deployment was from October 2009-May 2010 to the Western Pacific and Persian Gulf as part of the NIMITZ battlegroup.
  After SAMPSON returned from an 8 month maiden deployment, she was back underway from May to August with port visits to the 103rd Portland Rose Festival, Esquimalt, British Columbia to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Royal Canadian Navy and the parade of ships and then participated in Exercise RIMPAC off the coast of Hawaii. SAMPSON's crew was awarded two Sea Service Ribbons in 12 months.
  In August 2011 USS Sampson pulled into South Harbor in Seattle, Washington, to participate in Seattle's Seafair celebration. In September, USS Sampson dispatched an inflatable boat and swimmers to retrieve about 60 bales of assorted drugs from the ocean after the small boat dumped them overboard. After that the ship participated in USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX), in preparation for an independent deployment. In February 2012 USS Sampson departed San Diego for a scheduled deployment to the western Pacific and Middle East. In July, USS Sampson participated in at-sea phase of Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Singapore.
  On 29 December 2014, Sampson was dispatched to the Java Sea to search for Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 that disappeared the day before.
  In 2016 the ship remained assigned to Destroyer Squadron 23, working with Carrier Strike Group 11. She arrived at her new homeport, Naval Station Everett in Washington, on 26 September 2016.
  It was announced on 15 November 2016 that, following a magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Kaikoura, Sampson and other navy ships from Australia, Canada, Japan and Singapore would instead proceed directly to the area to provide humanitarian assistance.
  The guided-missile destroyer USS Sampson (DDG 102) departed its homeport of Naval Station Everett for a scheduled deployment with the Theodore Roosevelt Strike Group , Oct. 3rd, 2017.She returned May 9th, 2018 after seven months.
  A fun fact is that is only learned by those who have deployed aboard this ship, is that the movie “Battleship” has been banned aboard this vessel as the crew cheers when the ship is blown up in the movie. A true reflection of the moral aboard this navel vessel. {{Citation needed}}
caption: Sailors man the rails aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Sampson as the ship arrives to help celebrate Portland Fleet Week festivities during the city's 103rd annual Rose Festival. Assisting Sampson is the tug Pacific Escort
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