USS Antietam (CG-54)

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USS Antietam sails off the coast of San Diego
Career

Ordered: 20 June 1983
Laid down: 15 November 1984
Launched: 14 February 1986
Commissioned: 6 June 1987
Decommissioned:
Status: Active in service as of 2006.
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement: 9,600 tons
Length: 567 ft (173 m)
Beam: 55 ft (16.8 m)
Draught: 33 ft (10.1 m)
Propulsion: 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 80,000 shp (60 MW)
Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h)
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 (127 mm), 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: Power to Prevail

USS Antietam sails off the coast of San Diego
Career
Ordered:	20 June 1983
Laid down:	15 November 1984
Launched:	14 February 1986
Commissioned:	6 June 1987
Decommissioned:
Status:	Active in service as of 2006.
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	9,600 tons
Length:	567 ft (173 m)
Beam:	55 ft (16.8 m)
Draught:	33 ft (10.1 m)
Propulsion:	4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 80,000 shp (60 MW)
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h)
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 (127 mm), 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:	Power to Prevail

USS Antietam (CG-54), named for the site of the Battle of Antietam, Maryland, between Confederate forces under General Robert E. Lee and Union forces under Major General George McClellan, in 1862, during the War Between the States is a Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy laid down by the Litton-Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation at Pascagoula, Mississippi on 15 November 1984, launched on 14 February 1986, and commissioned on 6 June 1987. Antietam operates out of her home port of San Diego, California.

With her guided missiles and rapid-fire cannons, she is capable of facing and defeating threats in the air, on the sea, on the shore, and beneath the sea. She also carries two Seahawk LAMPS multi-purpose helicopters, but especially for anti-submarine warfare [ASW].

There was a previous USS Antietam, an aircraft carrier, in the U.S.N., during and following WW-II.

Battle of Antietam: Otherwise know as Sharpsburg.

USS Antietam (CG-54) makes a hard turn to starboard

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a US government publication, is in the public domain.

External links

Ticonderoga-class cruiser

Mark-26 twin-arm missile launcher ships:

Ticonderoga | Yorktown | Vincennes | Valley Forge | Thomas S. Gates

Mark-41 Vertical Launching System ships:

List of cruisers of the United States Navy

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