USS Arleigh Burke

Commissioned in 1991, the Arleigh Burke is the name ship of the largest and most capable destroyer class in the world—more than 70 ships built and still counting. She honors Admiral Arleigh 'Thirty-One Knot' Burke, whose relentless destroyer campaigns in the Solomon Islands made him the most celebrated surface warfare officer in American history. The class she launched remains the backbone of the surface Navy, and no ship in the fleet has shaped American sea power more than the one that carries her name.