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USS Gridley DDG-101 San Diego

USS Gridley DDG-101 San Diego poster art.

The fourth USS Gridley (DDG-101) is the fifty-first Arleigh Burke’-class destroyer in the United States NavyGridley is named after Captain Charles Gridley, Commander of Admiral George Dewey’s flagship Olympia, (Flag Captain) and recipient of Admiral Dewey’s famous command, ‘You may fire when you are ready, Gridley’ in the Battle of Manila Bayduring the Spanish-American War. In May 2004, the Secretary of the Navy announced the names of five new Arleigh Burke class destroyers, including Gridley. Her keel was laid on 30 July 2004 at the Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. She was christened on 11 February 2006. The USS Gridley was commissioned at the Port of Miami on Saturday, 10 February 2007.

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