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
15 December.
- 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).
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