USS Valley Forge (CG-50) - Definition and Overview

USS Valley Forge underway from San Diego
Career
Ordered:	28 August 1981
Laid down:	14 April 1983
Launched:	23 June 1984
Commissioned:	18 January 1986
Decommissioned:	30 August 2004
Status:	Decommissioned awaiting disposal
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 Mk 26 missile launchers, 88 x RIM-67 SM-2, 8 x AGM-84 Harpoon missiles 2 x 5 in, 2–4 x 12.7 mm guns, 2 x Phalanx CIWS 2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft:	2 x SH-2 Seasprite helicopters
Motto:

USS Valley Forge (CG-50) is a Ticonderoga-class cruiser in the United States Navy. The first warship with the AEGIS combat system to be withdrawn from service. The ship was decommissioned on 31 August 2004 at San Diego Naval Station.

Crest of USS Valley Forge

External Links

• USS Valley Forge webpage (http://www.navysite.de/cg/cg50.html)

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register.