![]() USS Shiloh forward deployed to Japan in June 2023
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Name | Shiloh |
Namesake | Battle of Shiloh |
Ordered | 16 April 1987 |
Builder | Bath Iron Works |
Laid down | 1 August 1989 |
Launched | 8 September 1990 |
Acquired | 24 April 1992 |
Commissioned | 18 July 1992 |
Homeport | Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam |
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Motto | Making Excellence a Tradition |
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. |
USS Shiloh (CG-67) is a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy, named in remembrance of the Battle of Shiloh during the American Civil War. She was built at the Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine.
With her guided missiles and guns, she is capable of facing and defeating threats in the air, on or under the sea, and ashore. She also carries two Seahawk LAMPS multi-purpose helicopters, mainly for anti-submarine warfare (ASW).
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