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USS Ticonderoga (CG-47)
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- For other ships of the same name, see USS Ticonderoga
 USS Ticonderoga (CG-47) |
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| Ordered: | 22 September 1978 (as DDG-47) |
| Laid down: | 21 January 1980 |
| Launched: | 25 April 1981 |
| Christened: | 16 May 1981 |
| Commissioned: | 22 January 1983 |
| Decommissioned: | 30 September 2004 |
| Status: | Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Philadelphia |
| 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: | 387 officers and 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 × Mk 26 missile launchers 88 × RIM-67 SM-2 8 × RGM-84 Harpoon missiles 2 × Mark 45 5 in / 54 cal lightweight gun 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. |
USS Ticonderoga (DDG/CG-47), fifth to bear the name, was a guided-missile cruiser, homeported in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The "Tico" was the lead ship of her class.
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The United States Navy built the first Aegis cruisers using the hull and machinery designs of Spruance-class destroyers. Ticonderoga was ordered as a guided missile destroyer, but redesignated as a cruiser before she was laid down.
The contract to build DDG-47 Ticonderoga was awarded to Ingalls Shipbuilding on 22 September 1978. On 1 January 1980, she was redesignated as a guided missile cruiser, CG-47. Her keel was laid down on 21 January 1980, and launched 25 April 1981. She was delivered on 13 December 1982, and commissioned on 22 January 1983, with First Lady Nancy Reagan, the ship's main sponsor, having the honor of christening the ship 16 May 1981. She completed her final deployment on August 3, 2004, and was decommissioned on September 30 of that year. After her decommissioning, she was towed to the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility in Philadelphia. Recently, however, she was put up for museum donation by the Navy and there is a strong effort to bring Ticonderoga to Pascagoula, Mississippi where she was built to serve as a museum ship.
This Ticonderoga was the first ship to feature the Aegis combat system. This allows the ship to track and engage multiple targets (aircraft) much more effectively than any ship previously.
The name most likely stems from Fort Ticonderoga, a large 18th century fort built at a strategically important narrows in Lake Champlain. The name "Ticonderoga" comes from an Iroquois word tekontaró:ken, meaning "it is at the junction of two waterways".[1]
Ticonderoga was featured in the Tom Clancy novel Red Storm Rising (1986). In the novel Ticonderoga is part of a surface fleet built around the carrier USS Nimitz. During a surprise Soviet air raid Ticonderoga unleashes her missiles at the incoming Soviet anti-ship missiles, and succeeded in eliminating just over 60% of the total number of "vampires" all by herself. Despite her best efforts and the efforts of the other ships Ticonderoga, Nimitz, Saratoga, and several other ships receive heavy damage from the attack, while the French carrier Foch, Saipan and a handful of other vessels are destroyed.
The ship was also the centerpiece of a PC game by the same name, in which the player assumed the role of the captain through various fictional missions.
The song "Shore Leave" on the Album Swordfishtrombones by Tom Waits contains the line, "I'd left all my papers on the Ticonderoga and was in a bad need of a shave."
The movie Starship Troopers also featured a space station named Ticonderoga
- USS Ticonderoga webpage
- Navy News Story about Decommissioning
- USS Ticonderoga (CG-47) Veterans' Website
- CG-47 Personnel Roster at HullNumber.com
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.
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Mark-26 twin-arm missile launcher ships: |
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Ticonderoga | Yorktown | Vincennes | Valley Forge | Thomas S. Gates |
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Mark-41 Vertical Launching System ships: |
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Bunker Hill | Mobile Bay | Antietam | Leyte Gulf | San Jacinto | Lake Champlain | Philippine Sea | Princeton | Normandy | Monterey | Chancellorsville | Cowpens | Gettysburg | Chosin | Hué City | Shiloh | Anzio | Vicksburg | Lake Erie | Cape St. George | Vella Gulf | Port Royal |
| List of cruisers of the United States Navy |
- ^ Afable, Patricia O. and Madison S. Beeler (1996). "Place Names", in "Languages", ed. Ives Goddard. Vol. 17 of Handbook of North American Indians, ed. William C. Sturtevant. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, p. 193