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Photos: USS O’Kane arrives

Published 5:08 pm Sunday, May 14, 2017

The 505-foot USS O’Kane anchors in front of a cruise ship in the Gastineau Channel on Saturday afternoon. (Lance Nesbitt | For the Juneau Empire)
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The 505-foot USS O’Kane anchors in front of a cruise ship in the Gastineau Channel on Saturday afternoon. (Lance Nesbitt | For the Juneau Empire)
The 505-foot USS O’Kane anchors in front of a cruise ship in the Gastineau Channel on Saturday afternoon. (Lance Nesbitt | For the Juneau Empire)
Musician 3rd class Petty Officer Galen Mckinney from the U.S. Pacific Fleet Band’s Harbor Brass Ensemble plays his trumpet before the arrival of the USS O’Kane on Saturday afternoon at Marine Park. (Lance Nesbitt | For the Juneau Empire)
The USS O’Kane pulls into port Saturday afternoon. The USS O’Kane, a Basline 5.3 Flight II Arleigh Burke-class guided missle destroyer, is the 27th destroyer of the class and the sixteenth built by Bath Iron Works. O’Kane is the second ship to be commissioned in her home port of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. She was laid down on May 8, 1997, at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. (Lance Nesbitt | For the Juneau Empire)

The USS O’Kane pulls into port Saturday afternoon. The O’Kane, a Basline 5.3 Flight II Arleigh Burke-class guided missle destroyer, is the 27th destroyer of the class and the sixteenth built by Bath Iron Works. O’Kane is the second ship to be commissioned in her home port of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

ABOUT THE O’KANE

Commissioned: Oct. 23, 1999

Homeport: Pearl Harbor, HI

Length: 505 feet

Beam: 66 feet

Draft: 31 feet

Top speed: Greater than 31 knots

Crew: 248 enlisted, 33 officers

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