USS Gettysburg (CG-64)
.jpg) USS Gettysburg in the Atlantic Ocean |
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| Career (US) |  |
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| Name: | USS Gettysburg |
| Namesake: | Battle of Gettysburg |
| Ordered: | 8 January 1986 |
| Builder: | Bath Iron Works |
| Laid down: | 17 August 1988 |
| Launched: | 2 July 1989 |
| Commissioned: | 22 June 1991 |
| Homeport: | Mayport, Florida |
| Motto: | Deeds Not Words |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2012[update] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and 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) |
| Propulsion: |
4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbine engines, 80,000 shaft horsepower (60,000 kW) |
| Speed: | 32.5 knots (60 km/h) |
| Complement: | 33 officers, 27 Chief Petty Officers, and approx. 340 enlisted |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
AN/SPY-1A/B multi-function radar
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| Armament: | 2 × 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems 122 × Mix of RIM-66M-5 Standard SM-2MR Block IIIB, RIM-156A SM-2ER Block IV, RIM-161 SM-3, RIM-162A ESSM, RIM-174A Standard ERAM, BGM-109 Tomahawk, or RUM-139A VL-ASROC 8 × RGM-84 Harpoon missiles 2 × Mk 45 Mod 2 5 in / 54 cal lightweight gun 2 × 25 mm Mk 38 gun 2–4 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) gun 2 × Phalanx CIWS Block 1B 2 × Mk 32 12.75 in (324 mm) triple torpedo tubes for lightweight torpedoes |
| Aircraft carried: | 2 × SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters |
USS Gettysburg (CG-64) is a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser in the United States Navy. She is named for the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. She was built at the Bath Iron Works in Maine.
With her guided missiles and rapid-fire cannons, she is capable of facing and defeating threats in the air, on the sea, or ashore, and underneath the sea. She also carries two Seahawk LAMPS multi-purpose helicopters, but mainly for anti-submarine warfare (ASW).
She is homeported in Mayport, Florida.
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[edit] Operation history
On 30 November 1994, Gettysburg — along with USS Halyburton — was dispatched to assist the cruise ship Achille Lauro, which was on fire in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Somalia. Achille Lauro eventually sank but the passengers were rescued and transported to Mombasa, Kenya.[1][2][3]
On 13 May 2009, a team of sailors from the ship apprehended 17 pirates off the coast of Yemen as the pirates were attempting to hijack the Egyptian ship Motor Vessel Amira.[4] The ship was filmed in its counter-piracy role and featured on the Spike TV network special U.S. Navy: Pirate Hunters.[5]
Gettysburg completed its Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) as part of the Carrier Strike Group Two on 10 February 2011.[6] Gettysburg deployed with an embarked Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 70 (HSM-70) detachment as part of Carrier Strike Group Two, departing Naval Station Mayport on 10 May 2011.[7] Gettysburg subsequently participated in NATO naval exercise Exercise Saxon Warrior off the coast of England under the operational control of Flag Officer Sea Training (FOST). During this exercise, Gettysburg operated with the new British guided-missile destroyer Dauntless.[8]
[edit] In popular culture
In Tom Clancy's novel The Bear and the Dragon, Gettysburg intercepted a Chinese ICBM just before it detonated over Washington D.C. The cruiser had nearly exhausted her complement of SM-2 missiles, and the second-to-last missile made the dramatic interception over the Beltway.
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ R. D. Reilly, Jr. (C.O. of USS Halyburton) (July 1, 1995). "Submission of Command History for Calendar Year 1994 (USS Halyburton)" (PDF). United States Navy. http://www.history.navy.mil/shiphist/h/ffg-40/1994.pdf. Retrieved 2008-03-08.
- ^ "Achille Lauro sinks near Somalia". History.com. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=52217. Retrieved 2008-03-08.
- ^ "CG 64 Gettysburg". Globalsecurity.org. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/cg-64.htm. Retrieved 2008-03-08.
- ^ Washington Times, "U.S. Sailors Catch Pirates Red-Handed", May 15, 2009, p. 11.
- ^ "Spike Sails the High Seas With the US Navy in Its Search for Pirates in New One-Hour Special". Market Watch (WSJ). May 17, 2010. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/spike-sails-the-high-seas-with-the-us-navy-in-its-search-for-pirates-in-new-one-hour-special-2010-05-17?reflink=MW_news_stmp. Retrieved 9 June 2010.[dead link]
- ^ Mass Communications Specialist Seaman Betsy Lynn Knapper, USN (February 17, 2011). "USS Gettysburg Completes COMPTUEX". NNS110217-02. USS Gettysburg Public Affairs. http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=58625. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
- ^ Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Betsy Lynn Knapper, USN (May 12, 2011). "USS Gettysburg Deploys with George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group". NNS110512-19. USS Gettysburg Public Affair. http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=60318. Retrieved 2011-05-29.
- ^ Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Betsy Lynn Knapper, USN (May 24, 2011). "Gettysburg Participates in Saxon Warrior". NNS110524-12. USS Gettysburg Public Affair. http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=60577. Retrieved 2011-05-29.
[edit] References
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.
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