USS Vicksburg

USS VICKSBURG is the 23rd TICONDEROGA class guided missile cruiser and the 4th ship of the Navy to bear the name of the Mississippi city along the bluffs of the Mississippi River at the mouth of the Yazoo River.

General Characteristics: Awarded:February 25, 1988
Keel laid: May 30, 1990
Launched: September 7, 1991
Commissioned: November 14, 1992
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding, West Bank, Pascagoula, Miss.
Propulsion system: four General Electric LM 2500 gas turbine engines
Propellers: two
Blades on each Propeller: five
Length: 567 feet (173 meters)
Beam: 55 feet (16.8 meters)
Draft: 34 feet (10.2 meters)
Displacement: approx. 9,600 tons full load
Speed: 30+ knots
Cost: about $1 billion
Aircraft: two SH-60 Sea Hawk (LAMPS 3)
Armament: two Mk 41 VLS for Standard missiles, Tomahawk, ASROC; Mk 46 torpedoes, Harpoon missile launchers, two Mk 45 5-inch/54 caliber lightweight guns, two Phalanx CIWS, two Mk 38 Mod 2 25mm machine gun systems
Homeport: Mayport, Fla.
Crew: 33 Officers, 27 Chief Petty Officers and approx. 340 Enlisted

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