Chafee returns to sea following COVID outbreak February 18 The destroyer Chafee launches a Block V Tomahawk, the weapon’s newest variant, during a missile exercise in 2020. (Navy) The U.S. guided-missile destroyer Chafee has returned to sea following a COVID-19 outbreak that saw most of the vessel’s crew taken off the ship and moved into quarantine for two weeks. While a skeleton crew had been left onboard, roughly 200 shipmates were moved back on to the ship last Friday, and the Chafee has since gotten back underway off San Diego, U.S. 3rd Fleet spokesman Cmdr. Sean Robertson said in an email.