USS Vicksburg (CG-69)
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USS Vicksburg (CG-69) is a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser serving in the United States Navy. She is named for the Siege of Vicksburg fought during the American Civil War.[1]
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Name | Vicksburg |
Namesake | Siege of Vicksburg |
Ordered | 25 February 1988 |
Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
Laid down | 30 May 1990 |
Launched | 7 September 1991 |
Sponsored by | Tricia Lott, wife of United States Senator Trent Lott |
Christened | 12 October 1991 |
Acquired | 21 September 1992 |
Commissioned | 14 November 1992 |
Renamed | 8 December 1989, from Port Royal |
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Motto | Key to Victory |
Status | in active service |
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Class and type | Ticonderoga-class cruiser |
Displacement | Approx. 9,600 long tons (9,800 t) full load |
Length | 567 feet (173 m) |
Beam | 55 feet (16.8 meters) |
Draft | 34 feet (10.2 meters) |
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Speed | 32.5 knots (60 km/h; 37.4 mph) |
Complement | 30 officers and 300 enlisted |
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Aircraft carried | 2 × MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS Mk III helicopters. |
Vicksburg was built by Ingalls Shipbuilding, at Pascagoula, Mississippi and commissioned on 14 November 1992.[2]
With her guided missiles and rapid-fire cannons, Vicksburg is capable of facing threats in the air, on the sea, ashore, and underneath the sea. She is also capable of carrying two SH-60 Sea Hawk Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System (LAMPS III) helicopters.
Vicksburg was originally named Port Royal, but the name was changed before the keel was laid. She was the only Ticonderoga-class vessel to have a formal name change until USS Robert Smalls. CG-73 was later named Port Royal.[3]
The previous Vicksburg was a Cleveland-class light cruiser during and after World War II. Vicksburg's crest has two stars on the streamer in the eagle's beak representing the two battle stars awarded to her predecessor.[4]