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USS Cape St. George (CG-71)
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 USS Cape St. George (CG-71) launches a Tomahawk missile. |
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| Career (US) |  |
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| Ordered: | 25 February 1988 |
| Laid down: | 19 November 1990 |
| Launched: | 10 January 1992 |
| Commissioned: | 13 June 1993 |
| Status: | Active in service as of 2007 |
| Homeport: | San Diego, California |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | approx. 9,600 tons full load |
| Length: | 567 feet (173 meters) |
| Beam: | 55 feet (17 meters) |
| Draught: | 33 feet (10 meters) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 80,000 shp |
| Speed: | 32.5 knots (60 km/h) |
| Complement: | 33 officers & 327 enlisted |
| Sensors and processing systems: | AN/SPY-1A/B multi-function radar AN/SPS-49 air search radar AN/SPG-62 fire control radar AN/SPS-55 surface search radar AN/SPQ-9 gun fire control radar AN/SQQ-89(V)3 Sonar suite, consisting of
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| Armament: | 2 × 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems 122 × RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk, or RUM-139 VL-Asroc 8 × RGM-84 Harpoon missiles 2 × Mark 45 5 in / 54 cal lightweight gun 2 × 25 mm 2–4 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) gun 2 × Phalanx CIWS 2 × Mk 32 12.75 in (324 mm) triple torpedo tubes |
| Aircraft carried: | 2 x Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters. |
| Motto: | Always Victorious |
USS Cape St. George (CG-71) is a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser laid down by the Litton-Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation at Pascagoula in Mississippi on 19 November 1990, launched on 10 January 1992 and commissioned on 12 June 1993. Cape St. George operates out of San Diego in California.
Cape St. George is named for the World War II Battle of Cape St. George near New Ireland in Papua New Guinea where a U.S. Navy destroyer force led by Captain Arleigh Burke defeated a Japanese destroyer force on 25 November 1943.
In May 2005, Cape St. George became the first surface warship certified to use only digital nautical charts (DNC), instead of paper charts using the Voyage Management System. About 12,000 paper charts have been replaced by 29 computer discs. VMS is part of the Smart Ship Integrated Bridge System, which has been under development since 1990.
On 18 March 2006, she was involved in a firefight with suspected pirates, along with the USS Gonzalez. The two U.S. warships exchanged fire with the suspected pirates about 25 nautical miles off the coast of Somalia. Initial reports indicated that one suspected pirate was killed and five others wounded.
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.
- Official web site
- USS Cape St. George webpage
- http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060318/ap_on_re_mi_ea/somalia_us_pirates
- U.S. Navy official news bulletin on March 18, 2006 incident
- CG-71 Personnel Roster at HullNumber.com
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