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USS Lake Erie (CG-70) - Definition and Overview

USS Lake Erie docked at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Career USN Jack
Ordered: 25 February 1988
Laid down: 6 March 1990
Launched: 13 July 1991
Commissioned: 24 July 1993
Decommissioned:
Status: Active in service as of 2005.
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement: 9,600 tons
Length: 567 ft
Beam: 55 ft
Draught: 33 ft
Propulsion: 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 80,000 shp
Speed: 30+ knots
Range:
Complement: 387 officers and enlisted
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, 2 x 25 mm, 2–4 x 12.7 mm guns, 2 x Phalanx CIWS
2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft: 2 x SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters
Motto: Don't Give Up the Ship


USS Lake Erie (CG-70) is a Ticonderoga-class cruiser in the United States Navy. She is named for the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register.

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