USS Antietam sails off the coast of San Diego
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| Career
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| Ordered:
| 20 June 1983
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| Laid down:
| 15 November 1984
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| Launched:
| 14 February 1986
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| Commissioned:
| 6 June 1987
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| Decommissioned:
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| Status:
| Active in service as of 2005.
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| Struck:
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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement:
| 9,600 tons
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| Length:
| 567 ft (173 m)
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| Beam:
| 55 ft (16.8 m)
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| Draught:
| 33 ft (10.1 m)
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| Propulsion:
| 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 80,000 shp (60 MW)
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| Speed:
| 30 knots (56 km/h)
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| Range:
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| Complement:
| 387 officers and enlisted
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| Armament:
| 2 x 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 122 x RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, 8 x AGM-84 Harpoon missiles
2 x 5 in (127 mm), 2 x 25 mm, 2–4 x 12.7 mm guns, 2 x Phalanx CIWS
2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
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| Aircraft:
| 2 x SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters
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| Motto:
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USS Antietam (CG-54), named for the site of a battle between Confederate forces under General Robert E. Lee and Union forces under Major General George McClellan on 17 and 18 September 1862, is a Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser laid down by the Litton-Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation at Pascagoula in Mississippi on 15 November 1984, launched on 14 February 1986 and commissioned on 6 June 1987. Antietam operates out of San Diego in California.
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register.
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