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Vincennes 2002

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
CG47	Ticonderoga	4701	Ingalls SB, Pascagoula	21.1.1980	25.4.1981	22.1.1983	stricken 9.2004
CG48	Yorktown	4901	Ingalls SB, Pascagoula	19.10.1981	17.1.1983	4.7.1984	stricken 12.2004
CG49	Vincennes	4501	Ingalls SB, Pascagoula	19.10.1982	14.1.1984	6.7.1985	stricken 6.2005
CG50	Valley Forge	4502	Ingalls SB, Pascagoula	14.4.1983	23.6.1984	18.1.1986	stricken 8.2004
CG51	Thomas S. Gates	420	Bath Iron Works	31.8.1984	14.12.1985	22.8.1987	stricken 12.2005
CG52	Bunker Hill	4503	Ingalls SB, Pascagoula	11.1.1984	11.3.1985	20.9.1986	in service (2020)
CG53	Mobile Bay	4504	Ingalls SB, Pascagoula	5.6.1984	22.8.1985	21.2.1987	in service (2020)
CG54	Antietam	4505	Ingalls SB, Pascagoula	15.11.1984	14.2.1986	6.6.1987	in service (2020)
CG55	Leyte Gulf	4506	Ingalls SB, Pascagoula	18.3.1985	20.6.1986	26.9.1987	in service (2020)
CG56	San Jacinto	4507	Ingalls SB, Pascagoula	24.7.1985	14.11.1986	23.1.1988	in service (2020)
CG57	Lake Champlain	4510	Ingalls SB, Pascagoula	3.3.1986	3.4.1987	12.8.1988	in service (2020)
CG58	Philippine Sea	421	Bath Iron Works	8.5.1986	12.7.1987	18.3.1989	in service (2020)
CG59	Princeton	4511	Ingalls SB, Pascagoula	15.10.1986	2.10.1987	11.2.1989	in service (2020)
CG60	Normandy	422	Bath Iron Works	7.4.1987	19.3.1988	9.12.1989	in service (2020)
CG61	Monterey	423	Bath Iron Works	19.8.1987	23.10.1988	16.6.1990	in service (2020)
CG62	Chancellorsville	4513	Ingalls SB, Pascagoula	24.6.1987	15.7.1988	4.11.1989	in service (2020)
CG63	Cowpens	424	Bath Iron Works	23.12.1987	11.3.1989	9.3.1991	in service (2020)
CG64	Gettysburg	425	Bath Iron Works	17.8.1988	22.7.1989	22.6.1991	in service (2020)
CG65	Chosin	4515	Ingalls SB, Pascagoula	22.7.1988	1.9.1989	12.1.1991	in service (2020)
CG66	Hué City	4516	Ingalls SB, Pascagoula	20.2.1989	1.6.1990	14.9.1991	in service (2020)
CG67	Shiloh	426	Bath Iron Works	1.8.1989	8.9.1990	18.7.1992	in service (2020)
CG68	Anzio	4517	Ingalls SB, Pascagoula	21.8.1989	2.11.1990	2.5.1992	in service (2020)
CG69	Vicksburg	4519	Ingalls SB, Pascagoula	30.5.1990	2.8.1991	14.11.1992	in service (2020)
CG70	Lake Erie	427	Bath Iron Works	6.3.1990	13.7.1991	10.5.1993	in service (2020)
CG71	Cape St. George	4520	Ingalls SB, Pascagoula	19.11.1990	10.1.1992	12.6.1993	in service (2020)
CG72	Vella Gulf	4521	Ingalls SB, Pascagoula	22.4.1991	13.6.1992	18.9.1993	in service (2020)
CG73	Port Royal	4522	Ingalls SB, Pascagoula	20.11.1991	20.11.1992	4.7.1994	in service (2020)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	CG47, 48: 7019 (light) CG49-51: 7014 (light) CG52-73: 8910 standard 6997 - 7242 light
Displacement full, t	CG47, 48: 9589 CG49-51: 9047 CG52-73: 9763 - 10010
Length, m	162.4 wl 172.5 oa
Breadth, m	16.8
Draught, m	CG47-51: 6.55 mean 9.60 over sonar dome CG52-73: 7.46 mean 10.5 over sonar dome
No of shafts	2
Machinery	4 General Electric LM-2500 gas turbines
Power, h. p.	86000
Max speed, kts	30+
Fuel, t	gas turbine oil: 2000
Endurance, nm(kts)	6000(20)
Armament	CG47, 48: 2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84), 2 x 2 Standard SM-2MR SAM / ASROC ASuR (68 RIM-66C/D, 20 RUR-5), 2 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 45 Mod. 0, 2 x 6 - 20/76 Mk 15 Phalanx, 4 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2 x 3 - 324 TT, 1 - 2 helicopters (SH-2F) CG49-51: 2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84), 2 x 2 Standard SM-2MR SAM / ASROC ASuR (68 RIM-66G/H/J, 20 RUR-5), 2 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 45 Mod. 0, 2 x 6 - 20/76 Mk 15 Phalanx, 4 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2 x 3 - 324 TT, 1 - 2 helicopters (SH-60B) CG52-68: 2 x 61 Mk 41 Mod. 0 VLS (122 Tomahawk RGM-109 CruM, Standard SM-2MR RIM-66 SAM, ASROC RUM-139 ASuR), 2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84), 2 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 45 Mod. 1, 2 x 6 - 20/76 Mk 15 Phalanx, 4 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2 x 3 - 324 TT, 2 helicopters (SH-60B) CG69-73: 2 x 61 Mk 41 Mod. 0 VLS (122 Tomahawk RGM-109 CruM, Standard SM-2MR RIM-66 SAM, ASROC RUM-139 ASuR), 2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84), 2 x 1 - 127/62 Mk 45 Mod. 2, 2 x 6 - 20/76 Mk 15 Phalanx, 4 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2 x 3 - 324 TT, 2 helicopters (SH-60B)
Electronic equipment	CG47, 48: SPS-64(v)9, SPS-55, SPS-49(v)6.7.8, SPY-1A, 4x SPG-62, SPQ-9A, 2x Mk 90 radars, SQS-53A sonar, SLQ-32(v)3 ECM suite, 4x Mk 36 SRBOC or 6x Hycor Mk 137 decoy RL, SLQ-25A Nixie torpedo decoy, Aegis Mk 7 Baseline 1 CCS CG49-51: SPS-64(v)9, SPS-55, SPS-49(v)6.7.8, SPY-1A, 4x SPG-62, SPQ-9A, 2x Mk 90 radars, SQS-53A sonar, SLQ-32(v)3 ECM suite, 4x Mk 36 SRBOC or 6x Hycor Mk 137 decoy RL, SLQ-25A Nixie torpedo decoy, Aegis Mk 7 Baseline 1 CCS CG52, 53: SPS-64(v)9, SPS-55, SPS-49(v)6.7.8, SPY-1A, 4x SPG-62, SPQ-9A, 2x Mk 90 radars, SQS-53A sonar, SLQ-32(v)3 ECM suite, 4x Mk 36 SRBOC or 6x Hycor Mk 137 decoy RL, SLQ-25A Nixie torpedo decoy, Aegis Mk 7 Baseline 2 CCS CG54, 55: SPS-64(v)9, SPS-55, SPS-49(v)6.7.8, SPY-1A, 4x SPG-62, SPQ-9A, 2x Mk 90 radars, SQS-53A, SQR-19 sonars, SLQ-32(v)3 ECM suite, 4x Mk 36 SRBOC or 6x Hycor Mk 137 decoy RL, SLQ-25A Nixie torpedo decoy, Aegis Mk 7 Baseline 2 CCS CG56-58: SPS-64(v)9, SPS-55, SPS-49(v)6.7.8, SPY-1A, 4x SPG-62, SPQ-9A, 2x Mk 90 radars, SQQ-89(v)3 sonar suite (SQS-53B + SQR-19 towed array), SLQ-32(v)3 ECM suite, 4x Mk 36 SRBOC or 6x Hycor Mk 137 decoy RL, SLQ-25A Nixie torpedo decoy, Aegis Mk 7 Baseline 2 CCS CG59-64: SPS-64(v)9, SPS-55, SPS-49(v)6.7.8, SPY-1B, 4x SPG-62, SPQ-9A, 2x Mk 90 radars, SQQ-89(v)3 sonar suite (SQS-53B + SQR-19 towed array), SLQ-32(v)3 ECM suite, 4x Mk 36 SRBOC or 6x Hycor Mk 137 decoy RL, SLQ-25A Nixie torpedo decoy, Aegis Mk 7 Baseline 3 CCS CG65-67: SPS-64(v)9, SPS-55, SPS-49(v)6.7.8, SPY-1D(v), 4x SPG-62, SPQ-9A, 2x Mk 90 radars, SQQ-89(v)3 sonar suite (SQS-53B + SQR-19 towed array), SLQ-32(v)3 ECM suite, 4x Mk 36 SRBOC or 6x Hycor Mk 137 decoy RL, SLQ-25A Nixie torpedo decoy, Mk 50 floating decoy system (4x Mk 166 launchers for SLQ-49 floating radar reflection buoys), Aegis Mk 7 Baseline 4 CCS CG68-73: SPS-64(v)9, SPS-55, SPS-49(v)6.7.8, SPY-1D(v), 4x SPG-62, SPQ-9A, 2x Mk 90 radars, SQQ-89(v).. sonar suite (SQS-53C + SQR-19 towed array), SLQ-32(v)3 ECM suite, 4x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL, SLQ-25A Nixie torpedo decoy, Mk 50 floating decoy system (4x Mk 166 launchers for SLQ-49 floating radar reflection buoys), Aegis Mk 7 Baseline 4 CCS
Complement	CG47-51: 377 - 380 CG52-73: 387

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Project history

This series, based on the Spruance hull form, is the result of a very lenghty evolution. The Aegis air defence system was originally designed for installation aboard a nuclear frigate (later redesignated cruiser) such as the California. However, when Admiral E. M. Zumwalt Jr became CNO he sought instead a minimum Aegis platform for construction in considerable numbers (DG/Aegis); for a time, it was to have been limited to $100m in FY73 dollars and to 5000t, compared to $45m and 3400t for what became the Perry class frigate. On this basis it would have been limited to a single Mk 22 launcher with 16 missiles, and DG had ro be relaxed to 6000t and $125m. There was to have been a single Mk 26 Mod 2 (64-missile) launcher, with cost rising to $200m by early 1973. Advocates of a conventionally-powered Aegis platform rejected this design as making too little use of the power inherent in the missile control system; advocates of nuclear power rejected it as means of killing off the nuclear ship programme. There was also some scepticism as to the accuracy of the cost estimates for DG/Aegis. Then the Secretary of the Navy asked for studies of a new nuclear version, which eventually became the abortive Strike Cruiser (CSGN) of about 18000t. Given the high cost of such a ship, the Secretary of Defense demanded a mix of nuclear and conventional Aegis ships, and the conventional study was based on the largest existing destroyer-type hull, the Spuance.

The lead ship, Ticonderoga, was authorized under the FY78 programme, at the same time that the nuclear strike cruiser died a political death; it was so large and so important that it was redesignated a cruiser in January 1980. Compared to the strike cruiser, it lacks an 203mm gun and has only a limited capacity for surface-to-surface missiles, two quadruple canisters. From CG 52 they have an enlarged missile capacity (122 as against 88) with vertical launchers, which carry Tomahawk as well as the SM-2 anti-aircraft missile of the Aegis system. Ships carry 36 Mk 46/50/54 torpedoes for helicopters. There is Kevlar protection of vital spaces.

Modernizations

1993, Ticonderoga, Yorktown, Vincennes, Valley Forge, Thomas S. Gates: - ASROC capability (88 Standard SM-1MR at all)

early 1990s and later, all: - Aegis Mk 7 Baseline 3.4 CCS; + Aegis Mk 7 Baseline 5 CCS

late 1990s, Ticonderoga, Yorktown, Vincennes, Valley Forge, Thomas S. Gates: - (1 - 2) SH-2F helicopters; + (1 - 2) SH-60B helicopters

late 1990s, all: - 2 x 61 Mk 41 Mod. 0 VLS (122 Tomahawk RGM-109 CruM, Standard SM-2MR RIM-66 SAM, ASROC RUM-139 ASuR); + 2 x 64 Mk 41 Mod. 0 VLS (128 Tomahawk RGM-109 CruM, Standard SM-2MR RIM-66 SAM, ASROC RUM-139 ASuR) by deleting of at-sea reloading cranes, 2 x 1 - 25/87 Mk 88 Bushmaster, SLQ-49 floating decoys

1999-early 2000s, Ticonderoga, Yorktown, Vincennes, Valley Forge, Thomas S. Gates, Bunker Hill, Mobile Bay, Antietam, Leyte Gulf, San Jacinto, Lake Champlain, Philippine Sea: - Mk 36 SRBOC system (4x SRBOC decoy RLs); + Mk 36 Mod. 18 SRBOC system (8x Mk 137 SRBOC decoy RLs)

1999-early 2000s, Princeton, Normandy, Monterey, Chancellorsville, Cowpens, Gettysburg, Chosin, Hue City, Shiloh, Anzio, Vicksburg, Lake Erie, Cape St. George, Vella Gulf, Port Royal: - Mk 36 SRBOC system (4x SRBOC decoy RLs); + Mk 53 Mod. 5 system (6x Mk 137 Mod. 4 decoy RLs + 4x Mk 137 Mod. 10 Nulka decoy RLs)

early 2000s, Vella Gulf: - SPS-64(v)9 radar; + Scout radar

2003, Lake Erie, Cape St. George, Port Royal; 2006, Shiloh; 2009, Vella Gulf; 2010, Monterey: + SM-3 SAM capability

2008, Bunker Hill; 2009, Mobile Bay; 2010, Philippine Sea; 2011, Antietam; 2012, San Jacinto; 2013-2014, Leyte Gulf, Lake Champlain: all were armed with 2 x 64 Mk 41 Mod. 0 VLS (128 Tomahawk RGM-109 CruM, Standard SM-2MR Block III, IV, SM-3 (on BMD CG67, 70, 72, 73) or SM-6 (RIM-66, RIM-161, RIM-174 SAM, ESSM SAM (4 RIM-162 in one cell), ASROC RUM-139 ASuR), 2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84), 2 x 1 - 127/62 Mk 45 Mod. 4, 2 x 6 - 20/76 Mk 15 Phalanx Block 1B, 2 x 1 - 25/87 Mk 88 Bushmaster, 4 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2 x 3 - 324 TT, 2 helicopters (SH-60B or MH-60R); SPS-64(v)9, SPS-55, SPS-49(v)7/8, SPY-1D(v), 4x SPG-62, SPQ-9B, 2x Mk 90 radars, EOSS Mk 20 Mod. 0, Mk 46 e/o systems, SQQ-89(v)3 sonar suite (SQS-53C + SQR-19 towed array), TRAFS torpedo detector, SLQ-32(v)3, SLQ-20B, COBLU ECM suites, Mk 53 Mod. 5 system (6x Mk 137 Mod. 4 decoy RLs + 4x Mk 137 Mod. 10 Nulka decoy RLs), SLQ-25A Nixie torpedo decoy, Mk 50 floating decoy system (4x Mk 166 launchers for SLQ-49 floating radar reflection buoys), Aegis Mk 7 Baseline 8, CEC USG-2 CCS

1998-2008, Princeton, Chosin, Hué City, Anzio, Vicksburg, Cape St. George: - Aegis Mk 7 Baseline 5 CCS; + Aegis Mk 7 Baseline 6 CCS

2013-2014, Princeton, Normandy, Monterey, Chancellorsville; 2015-2016, Cowpens, Gettysburg, 2016-2017, Chosin, Hue City, Shiloh, Anzio, Vicksburg: all were armed with 2 x 64 Mk 41 Mod. 0 VLS (128 Tomahawk RGM-109 CruM, Standard SM-2MR Block III, IV, SM-3 (on BMD CG67, 70, 72, 73) or SM-6 (RIM-66, RIM-161, RIM-174 SAM, ESSM SAM (4 RIM-162 in one cell), ASROC RUM-139 ASuR), 2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84), 2 x 1 - 127/62 Mk 45 Mod. 4, 2 x 6 - 20/76 Mk 15 Phalanx Block 1B, 2 x 1 - 25/87 Mk 88 Bushmaster, 4 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2 x 3 - 324 TT, 2 helicopters (SH-60B or MH-60R); SPS-64(v)9, SPS-55, SPS-49(v)7/8, SPY-1D(v), 4x SPG-62, SPQ-9B, 2x Mk 90 radars, EOSS Mk 20 Mod. 0, Mk 46 systems, SQQ-89A(v)15 sonar suite (SQS-53C + SQR-20 towed array), TRAFS torpedo detector, SLQ-32(V)3, SLQ-20B, COBLU ECM suites, Mk 53 Mod. 5 system (6x Mk 137 Mod. 4 decoy RLs + 4x Mk 137 Mod. 10 Nulka decoy RLs), SLQ-25A Nixie torpedo decoy, Mk 50 floating decoy system (4x Mk 166 launchers for SLQ-49 floating radar reflection buoys), Aegis Mk 7 Baseline 12, CEC USG-2 CCS

Naval service

Gettysburg was damaged by ramming by Iranian frigate Bayandor 13.10.1996 in Persian Gulf. Princeton was damaged by Iraqi mine in Persian Gulf 18.2.1991. Port Royal ran aground off Honolulu 5.2.2009 and was under repair till October. San Jacinto collided with SSN Montpelier 13.10.2012.