USS Pinckney

	USS Pinckney in 2007
History
United States
Name	Pinckney
Namesake	William Pinckney
Ordered	6 March 1998
Builder	Ingalls Shipbuilding
Laid down	16 July 2001
Launched	26 June 2002
Commissioned	29 May 2004
Home port	San Diego
Identification	MMSI number: 369939000; Callsign: NPKN; ; Hull number: DDG-91;
Motto	Proud to Serve
Honors and; awards	See Awards
Status	in active service
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General characteristics
Class & type	Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
Displacement	9,200 long tons (9,300 t)
Length	509 ft 6 in (155.30 m)
Beam	66 ft (20 m)
Draft	31 ft (9.4 m)
Propulsion	4 × General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 100,000 shp (75 MW)
Speed	>30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement	380 officers and enlisted
Electronic warfare; & decoys	SLQ-32(V)7 (SEWIP Block 3)
Armament	Guns:; 1 × 5-inch (127 mm)/62 Mk 45 Mod 4 (lightweight gun); 1 × 20 mm (0.8 in) Phalanx CIWS; 2 × 25 mm (0.98 in) Mk 38 machine gun system; 4 × 0.50 in (12.7 mm) caliber guns; Missiles:; 1 × 32-cell, 1 × 64-cell (96 total cells) Mk 41 vertical launching system (VLS):; RIM-66M surface-to-air missile; RIM-156 surface-to-air missile; RIM-174A Standard ERAM; RIM-161 anti-ballistic missile; RIM-162 ESSM (quad-packed); BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile; RUM-139 vertical launch ASROC; Torpedoes:; 2 × Mark 32 triple torpedo tubes:; Mark 46 lightweight torpedo; Mark 50 lightweight torpedo; Mark 54 lightweight torpedo;
Aircraft carried	2 × MH-60R Seahawk helicopters

USS Pinckney (DDG-91) is an Arleigh Burke-class (Flight IIA) Aegis guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named for African American Ship's Cook First Class William Pinckney (1915–1976), who received the Navy Cross for his courageous rescue of a fellow crewmember on board the aircraft carrier Enterprise (CV-6) during the Battle of Santa Cruz.

Pinckney was laid down on 16 July 2001 by Ingalls Shipbuilding, at Pascagoula, Mississippi; launched on 26 June 2002; and commissioned on 29 May 2004 at Naval Construction Battalion Center Port Hueneme. She is the first Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to be equipped with the AN/SPY-1D(V) Littoral Warfare Radar upgrade, which was fitted to all subsequent Flight IIA Arleigh Burkes.

As of January 2018, Pinckney is homeported at NS San Diego, and assigned to Destroyer Squadron 23.