HMS Ark Royal & USS Laboon

HMS Ark Royal was a light aircraft carrier and former flagship of the Royal Navy.[7] She was the third and final vessel of Invincible-class. She was built by Swan Hunter on the River Tyne and launched by them in 1981. Ark Royal was named by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. She followed sister ships HMS Invincible and HMS Illustrious into service in 1985.
Name: Ark Royal
Namesake: HMS Ark Royal
Ordered: December 1978
Builder: Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Laid down: 14 December 1978
Launched: 2 June 1981
Sponsored by: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
Commissioned: 1 November 1985
Decommissioned: 11 March 2011[1][2][3]
Refit: First Major 1999-2001, Second Major 2004-2007
Homeport: HMNB Portsmouth
Motto: Zeal Does Not Rest
Nickname(s): Noah's Ark
Honours and
awards: Al Faw 2003
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ark_Royal_(R07)

USS LABOON is the eighth ship in the ARLEIGH BURKE class and the first ship in the Navy named after Captain John Francis Laboon.

General Characteristics: Keel Laid: March 23, 1992
Christened: February 20, 1993
Commissioned: March 18, 1995
Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
Propulsion system: four General Electric LM 2500 gas turbine engines
Propellers: two
Blades on each Propeller: five
Length: 505,25 feet (154 meters)
Beam: 67 feet (20.4 meters)
Draft: 30,5 feet (9.3 meters)
Displacement: approx. 8.300 tons full load
Speed: 30+ knots
Aircraft: None. But LAMPS 3 electronics installed on landing deck for coordinated DDG/helicopter ASW operations.
Armament: two Mk 41 VLS for Standard missiles, Tomahawk; Harpoon missile launchers, one Mk 45 5-inch/54 caliber lightweight gun, two Phalanx CIWS, Mk 46 torpedoes (from two triple tube mounts)
Homeport: Norfolk, VA
Crew: 23 Officers, 24 Chief Petty Officers and 291 Enlisted
http://www.navysite.de/dd/ddg58.htm