USS Ticonderoga (CG-47)

USS Ticonderoga in May 1982
History
United States
NameTiconderoga
NamesakeBattle of Ticonderoga
Ordered22 September 1978
BuilderIngalls Shipbuilding
Laid down21 January 1980
Launched25 April 1981
Sponsored byNancy Reagan
Christened16 May 1981
Commissioned22 January 1983
Decommissioned30 September 2004
Stricken30 September 2004
Identification
MottoFirst AEGIS Cruiser
Nickname(s)Tico[1]
StatusArrived in Brownsville, Texas for scrapping in September 2020[2]
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General characteristics
Class and typeTiconderoga-class cruiser
DisplacementApprox. 9,600 long tons (9,800 t) full load
Length567 feet (173 m)
Beam55 feet (16.8 meters)
Draft34 feet (10.2 meters)
Propulsion
Speed32.5 knots (60 km/h; 37.4 mph)
Complement30 officers and 300 enlisted
Sensors and
processing systems
Armament
Aircraft carried2 × MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS Mk III helicopters.

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.

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.

  1. ^ Cushman Jr., John H. (19 December 1987). "Navy Puts Its 'Spotter' Near the Gulf". New York Times. Retrieved 13 March 2009.
  2. ^ "The Navy's First Aegis Warship USS Ticonderoga Is Being Scrapped". thedrive.com. 27 November 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  3. ^ Friedman, Norman (1984). U.S. CRUISERS An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. pp. 419–422.
  4. ^ a b Nasuti, Guy J. (21 November 2019). "Ticonderoga V (CG-47)". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Naval History & Heritage Command. Retrieved 23 November 2019. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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