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The Last Ship is a 1988 post-apocalyptic fiction novel by American writer William Brinkley. The Last Ship tells the story of a United States Navy guided missile destroyer, the fictional USS Nathan James (DDG-80), on patrol in the Barents Sea during a brief, full-scale nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union.
USS Sterett served as one of the filming locations for the TNT's television series The Last Ship and its fictional setting, USS Nathan James. [citation needed] USS Sterett served as the backdrop for a historic visit to Naval Base Point Loma by President Joe Biden in March 2023. The crew gave him a "line-the-rail" salute. [4]
USS Nathan James (DDG-80), the first nuclear powered Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer (By the time the TV series of the same name was produced in 2014, the USS Roosevelt had been commissioned as DDG-80 with destroyers up to at least DDG-120 awarded, so was renumbered as DDG-151.)
He briefly takes command of Nathan James ordered by the St. Louis White House (secretly under control of Allison Shaw) to place Captain Chandler under arrest. In season 4, he replaces Andrea Garnett as the executive officer of USS Nathan James under Captain Mike Slattery. In season 5, he is assigned to Naval Station Mayport as a flag officer ...
The 2014 television series The Last Ship, loosely based on the 1988 novel of the same name, is set on the fictional USS Nathan James. [203] Its hull designation in the book is DDG 80, but it was changed to DDG 151 for the television series to avoid confusion with the real-life USS Roosevelt, which did not exist when the book was written.
Nathan James suffers heavy damage in the battle, leaving the ship with only its forward deck gun operational and with limited ammunition. Nathan James lures the Achilles close to shore where combined fire from the captured missile battery and the deck gun finally sinks the rogue submarine, taking with it the Ramsey brothers. Completing the ...
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On 18 January 2016, John Paul Jones sank the decommissioned guided-missile frigate Reuben James in a test of a new anti-surface warfare variant of the Raytheon Standard Missile 6 (SM-6), becoming the first ship to sink a ship with the new variant of the missile. John Paul Jones fired the missile on the U.S. Pacific Missile Range near Hawaii. [15]