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USS Ticonderoga (CG-47)
Ticonderoga-class cruiser / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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USS Ticonderoga (DDG/CG-47), nicknamed "Tico", was a guided missile cruiser built for the United States Navy. She was the lead ship of the Ticonderoga class and the first U.S. Navy combatant to incorporate the Aegis combat system. Originally ordered as a guided-missile destroyer, she was redesignated as a cruiser after capabilities from the cancelled Strike cruiser program were implemented into the ship's design.[3] The new AEGIS system allowed Ticonderoga to track and engage many aerial targets more effectively than any previous U.S. Navy warship.
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Name | Ticonderoga |
Namesake | Battle of Ticonderoga |
Ordered | 22 September 1978 |
Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
Laid down | 21 January 1980 |
Launched | 25 April 1981 |
Sponsored by | Nancy Reagan |
Christened | 16 May 1981 |
Commissioned | 22 January 1983 |
Decommissioned | 30 September 2004 |
Stricken | 30 September 2004 |
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Motto | First AEGIS Cruiser |
Nickname(s) | Tico[1] |
Status | Arrived in Brownsville, Texas for scrapping in September 2020[2] |
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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. |
Ticonderoga entered service in 1983 and deployed later that year to the Mediterranean.[4] Over her first 10 years of service, Ticonderoga deployed multiple times to the Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans and the Persian Gulf. During Operation Desert Storm, she was attached to Battle Force Zulu and served as Arabian Gulf Track Coordinator.[4] Although she was built with a 35-year service life, the limited missile capacity of Ticonderoga's twin Mark 26 missile launch systems rendered her obsolete by the end of the Cold War. As a result, Ticonderoga adopted a primary mission of counternarcotics in the 1990s and 2000s, and made multiple patrols of the Caribbean in that role.
After being decommissioned in 2004, Ticonderoga was stored at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility in Philadelphia. She arrived in Brownsville, Texas, for scrapping in 2020.