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USS Preble (DDG-88) is an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the United States Navy. She is the sixth U.S. Navy ship named in honor of Commodore Edward Preble, who served in the American Revolutionary War and was one of the early leaders of the Navy. USS Preble is the 38th destroyer of her class. She was the 17th ship of this class to be built at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and construction began on 22 June 2000. She was launched on 1 June 2001 and was christened on 9 June 2001. On 9 November 2002, she was commissioned during a ceremony at the Commonwealth Pier/World Trade Center in Boston, Massachusetts. At her commissioning ceremony USS Preble was docked bow to bow with USS Constitution, the command of her namesake. The ceremony included a symbolic welcoming aboard of the spirit of Commodore Preble signaled by the ringing of chimes. Among the speakers at the commissioning were U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, U.S. Representative Stephen Lynch, then Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Vernon E. Clark USN (Ret.) and journalist and sailor Walter Cronkite.

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USS Preble (DDG-88) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy. She was commissioned on November 9, 2002 and is named after Commodore Edward Preble, a naval hero of the American Revolutionary War and the Barbary Wars. USS Preble is the sixth ship to bear his name.
USS Preble er utstyrt med Aegis-kampsystemet, som integrerer skipets sensorer og våpensystemer for å engasjere og beseire flere luft-, overflate- og undergrunnstrusler. Skipets primære våpen inkluderer MK 41 vertikalt lanseringssystem for Tomahawk cruise-missiler, Standard overflate-til-luft-missiler, ASROC anti-ubåtraketter og Evolved Sea Sparrow-missiler; to MK 45 5-tommers marinepistoler; to MK 32 trippel torpedorør; ett Phalanx nærvåpensystem; og to 25 mm kjettingkanoner. USS Preble har også med seg to MH-60R Seahawk-helikoptre for anti-ubåtkrigføring, anti-overflatekrigføring, søk og redning og logistikkstøtte.
USS Preble has participated in several operations and exercises since her commissioning, including Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC), Valiant Shield, Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT), and Malabar. She has also conducted freedom of navigation operations in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, as well as ballistic missile defense missions in the Pacific region. USS Preble is currently homeported at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and is assigned to Destroyer Squadron 31 of Carrier Strike Group One.