USS ''Patrick Gallagher'' (DDG-127) is a planned
United States Navy Flight IIA
guided missile destroyer, the 77th overall for the class.
She will be named for Lance Corporal Patrick Gallagher (1944–1967), an Irish-born
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who earned the
Navy Cross during the
Vietnam War.
Unlike the previous two ''Arleigh Burke''-class ships
USS ''Jack H. Lucas'' (DDG-125) and
USS ''Louis H. Wilson Jr.'' (DDG-126) which were inserted into the previous multi-year contract and are planned to be built in the Flight III configuration, ''Patrick Gallagher'' was separately added to Navy shipbuilding plans by Congress and will be built in the Flight IIA configuration.
was awarded the contract for ''Patrick Gallagher'' on 28 September 2017 and construction started on 9 November 2018.
On 30 March 2022, her keel was laid down at Bath Iron Works.
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Proposed ships of the United States Navy
Arleigh Burke-class destroyers
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