Science Fair Project Encyclopedia USS Mount Whitney (LCC-20)
|Ordered:||10 August 1966| |Laid down:||8 January 1969|
|Launched:||8 January 1970| |Commissioned:||16 January 1971|
|Displacement:||18,400 tons full load| |Length:||636.5 ft (194
m)| |Beam:||108 ft (32.9 m)| |Draft:||26.9 ft (8.8 m)|
|Propulsion:||Two boilers, one geared turbine| |Speed:||23 knots
(43 km/h)| |Complement:||52 Officers, 790 Enlisted, Ship's
Company| |Armament:|| Super RBOC chaff rockets, | 2 × 25 mm
Bushmaster guns, 4 × .50 cal. Machine guns, 2 × 20 mm Phalanx
CIWS Originally authorized as AGC-20, was reclassified LCC-20 on
1 January 1969, and laid down 6 January by Newport News
Shipbuilding & Drydock Company, Newport News, Virginia. The ship
is named for Mount Whitney, the 14,946-foot peak in the Sierra
Nevada range in California, the highest point in the lower 48
United States. - She carries enough food to feed the crew for 90
days and can transport supplies to support an emergency
evacuation of 3,000 people. - Her distilling units