USS Patrick Gallagher

USS Patrick Gallagher will be an Aegis guided missile destroyer, the last Flight IIA Technology Insertion variant. She will be named for Lance Corporal Patrick Gallagher, an Irish-born Marine Corps|Marine] who earned the Navy Cross during the Vietnam War.
Unlike the previous two Arleigh Burke-class ships and, 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. Bath Iron Works 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.
The ship was christened at Bath Iron Works shipyard on 27 July 2024. US Senator Susan Collins of Maine was in attendance. Outside the north gate, a group of around 75 protesters of the Gaza war protests in [the United States#Maine|Gaza war] were blocking roads, engaging in criminal trespass and dumping red liquid on the area in front of BIW's main building. Several were arrested.