USS Mustin (DDG-89)

The second USS Mustin (DDG 89) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer named in honor of the Mustin family. The contract to build her was awarded to Ingalls Shipbuilding on 6 March 1998. Her keel was laid down on 15 January 2001, she was launched on 12 December 2001, and commissioned July 26, 2003.

General Characteristics

• Overall Length: 511 feet
• Waterline Length: 471 feet
• Extreme Beam: 66 feet
• Waterline Beam: 59 feet
• Maximum Navigational Draft: 33 feet
• Draft Limit: 22 feet
• Light Displacement: 6600 tons
• Full Displacement: 8344 tons
• Dead Weight: 1744 tons
• Hull Material: Steel hull, steel superstructure.
• Number of Propellers: 2
• Propulsion Type: Gas Turbines
• Accommodations: Officers: 32 Enlisted: 348
• Armament:
  • Missiles: Standard surface-to-air missiles and Tomahawk cruise missiles from forward and aft vertical launching systems
  • Close-In Weapons Systems: two Phalanx
  • Antiship: Harpoon missiles
  • Torpedoes: two launchers
  • Gun: one five-inch gun

Another destroyer was named USS Mustin (DD-413).