USS Roosevelt

Not to be confused with any other USS Roosevelts.

## USS Roosevelt (DDG-80)

Roosevelt at sea

**USS *Roosevelt* (DDG-80)** is an *Arleigh Burke*-class destroyer in service with the United States Navy. She is named in honor of both President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife, the then-First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. This ship is the 30th destroyer of her class. USS *Roosevelt* was the 13th ship of this class to be built at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and construction began on 15 December 1997. She was launched on 10 January 1999 and was christened on 23 January 1999. On 14 October 2000 the commissioning ceremony was held at Naval Station Mayport, Florida.

### Namesake

On 22 October 1996, the Secretary of the Navy, John H. Dalton, announced that the 30th ship of the *Arleigh Burke* class, would be named *Roosevelt*. This is the first ship so named to honor both Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States and the former First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt.

### Construction

The keel was laid down on 15 December 1997 at Litton Industries' Ingalls Shipbuilding shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. She was launched on 10 January 1999, and christened on 23 January, sponsored by Mrs. Nancy Roosevelt Ireland, granddaughter of the ship's namesakes. The ship was commissioned on 14 October 2000 at Naval Station Mayport in Florida, with Commander Matthew E. Bobola in command.

### Service History

On 4 April 2006, *Roosevelt* and the Dutch frigate HNLMS *De Zeven Provinciën* attempted to intercept a hijacked South Korean trawler off the coast of Somalia, but the ships were forced to disengage in the pursuit because the pirates threatened the trawler's crew with firearms. The hijacked trawler escaped into Somali territorial waters.

On 16 February 2007, *Roosevelt* was awarded the 2006 Battle Efficiency "E" award.

On 28 October 2011, *Roosevelt* completed her seven-month deployment to the U.S. Fifth Fleet and Sixth Fleet Areas of Responsibility. During this overseas deployment, she was underway at sea for 205 days out of total of 213 days away from her homeport of Naval Station Mayport. During the 205 days at sea, she logged one period of 113 consecutive days underway, travelling over 38,000 nautical miles (70,000 km; 44,000 mi). She made only three ports of call during her 2011 deployment, to Rota, Spain; the island of Mahe in the Seychelles; and Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius.

On 16 March 2014, Navy SEALs from *Roosevelt* took possession of the rogue oil tanker *Morning Glory* south of Cyprus with the intent to deliver the vessel to the Libyan authorities.

On 19 May 2019, *Roosevelt* concluded her participation in NATO exercise Formidable Shield 2019 in which she was one of the first Aegis Combat System Baseline 9 ships to demonstrate the integrated air and missile defense (IAMD) capability.

On 21 March 2020, *Roosevelt* left her home port of Naval Station Mayport to shift her home port to Naval Station Rota in Spain. She arrived on 16 May 2020 to replace USS *Carney*. Her aft Phalanx CIWS was replaced with a SeaRAM CIWS.

In May 2020, *Roosevelt* operated in the Barents Sea with USS *Arleigh Burke* (DDG-51), USS *Porter* (DDG-78), USS *Ross* (DDG-71), USNS *Supply*, and HMS *Kent* (F78) in the first U.S. exercise in the Arctic waters since the mid-1990s.

On 21 October 2020, *Roosevelt* completed her first Forward-Deployed Naval Forces-Europe (FDNF-E) patrol in the U.S. 6th Fleet (C6F) area of operations conducting naval operations in the Arctic, Mediterranean Sea, and Black Sea in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe and Africa.

On 29 March 2021, *Roosevelt* began her second FDNF-E patrol in the C6F area of operations. *Roosevelt*, along with the *Arleigh Burke*-class destroyer USS *Arleigh Burke* (DDG-51), the *Virginia*-class submarine USS *Vermont* (SSN-792), and a U.S. Navy P-8A from Patrol Squadron (VP) 46, conducted anti-submarine warfare (ASW) exercise Black Toro in the north Atlantic Ocean, 2–7 April 2021.

On 11 December 2021, *Roosevelt* began her third FDNF-E patrol in the C6F area of operations.

On 8 October 2023, the day after the Hamas attack on Israel, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, directed the *Gerald R. Ford* carrier strike group to the Eastern Mediterranean in response. Along with the carrier, the group also includes the cruiser *Normandy*, and the destroyers *Ramage*, *Carney*, *Roosevelt* and *Thomas Hudner*.

### Awards

* Battle "E" – (2006, 2013, 2020)
* ASW Bloodhound Award - (2020, 2021)