USS Shiloh launching a cruise missile in the Gulf, September 3, 1996
Career
Ordered:	16 April 1987
Laid down:	1 August 1989
Launched:	8 September 1990
Commissioned:	18 July 1992
Decommissioned:
Status:	Active in service as of 2005.
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	9,600 tons
Length:	567 ft (173 m)
Beam:	55 ft (16.8 m)
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:

USS Shiloh (CG-67) is a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy, named in remembrance of the Battle of Shiloh in the American Civil War.

On 3 September 1996, while in the Carl Vinson battle group, Shiloh launched 14 Tomahawk cruise missiles in Operation Desert Strike against Iraq.

In August 2000, Shiloh deployed with the Abraham Lincoln battle group for a six-month assignment.

She deployed with the Battle Group again in July 2002, and was among the first cruisers to launch missiles in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Shiloh returned to her homeport San Diego, California on 25 April 2003, ending an unusually long nine-month deployment.

In January 2005, she participated in Operation Unified Assistance.

Crest of USS Shiloh

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register.

External link

• Shiloh (CG-67) homepage (http://www.shiloh.navy.mil)
• USS Shiloh webpage (http://www.navysite.de/cg/cg67.html)