USS Ticonderoga (CG-47) |Name:||USS Ticonderoga (CG-47)|
|Ordered:||22 September 1978 |Laid down:||21 January 1980|
|Launched:||25 April 1981| |Sponsored by:||Nancy Reagan|
|Christened:||16 May 1981| |Commissioned:||22 January 1983|
|Decommissioned:||30 September 2004| |Struck:||30 September
2004| |Fate:||Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility,
Philadelphia| |Class & type:||Ticonderoga-class cruiser|
|Displacement:||Approx. 9,600 long tons (9,800 t) full load|
|Length:||567 feet (173 m)| |Beam:||55 feet (16.8 meters)|
|Draft:||34 feet (10.2 meters)| 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas
turbine engines, 80,000 shaft horsepower (60,000 kW)
|Speed:||32.5 knots (60 km/h)| |Complement:||387 officers and
enlisted| AN/SPY-1A/B multi-function radar |Armament:||2 × Mk 26
missile launchers 68 × RIM-66 SM-2, and 20 × RUR-5 ASROC 8 ×
RGM-84 Harpoon missiles 2 × Mark 45 5 in / 54 cal lightweight
gun 2–4 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) gun 2 × Phalanx CIWS 2 × Mk 32 12.75
in (324 mm) triple torpedo tubes |Aircraft carried:||2 ×
Sikorsky