USS The Sullivans (DDG-68)

Career
Ordered:	8 April 1992
Laid down:	27 July 1994
Launched:	12 August 1995
Commissioned:	19 April 1997
Decommissioned:
Fate:	Active in service
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	8,315 tons
Length:	505 ft
Beam:	66 ft
Draught:	31 ft
Propulsion:	4 x General Electric LM 2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp
Speed:	30+ knots
Range:
Complement:	337 officers and enlisted
Armament:	1 x 29 cell, 1 x 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 90 x RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, missiles 1 x 5 in, 2 x 25 mm, 4 x 12.7 mm guns, 2 x Phalanx CIWS 2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft:	1 SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter can be embarked
Motto:

The second USS The Sullivans (DDG-68) is an Arleigh Burke-class "Aegis" guided missile destroyer homeported in Mayport, Florida. The ship's motto is "We Stick Together."

The ship is named in honor of the five Sullivan brothers - George, Francis, Eugene, Madison, and Albert Sullivan, aged 20 to 29 - who lost their lives when their ship, USS Juneau, was sunk by a Japanese submarine in November 1942 in the Battle of the Solomon Islands. This was the greatest sacrifice by any one family during World War II.

The terrorist group al-Qaida attempted an attack on the Sullivans as a part of the 2000 millennium attack plots. The plan was to load a boat full of explosives and explode in near the Sullivans's hull. However the al-Qaida boat was so overladen that it sank, forcing the attack to be cancelled. Later, al-Qaida tried the same type of attack a second time. They successfully bombed the USS Cole on October 12, 2000.

There was another The Sullivans; see USS The Sullivans (DD-537).

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register.