USS Gettysburg (CG-64)

USS Gettysburg (CG-64) in the Atlantic Ocean
History
United States
Name: Gettysburg
Namesake: Battle of Gettysburg
Ordered: 8 January 1986
Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
Laid down: 17 August 1988
Launched: 2 July 1989
Commissioned: 22 June 1991
Homeport: Norfolk, Virginia
Identification:
Motto: Deeds Not Words
Status: in active service
Badge:
General characteristics
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)
Propulsion:
  • 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbine engines, 80,000 shaft horsepower (60,000 kW)
  • 2 × controllable-reversible pitch propellers
  • 2 × rudders
Speed: 32.5 knots (60 km/h; 37.4 mph)
Complement: 33 officers, 27 Chief Petty Officers, and approx. 340 enlisted
Sensors and
processing systems:
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 2 × MH-60R helicopters

USS Gettysburg (CG-64) is a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser in the United States Navy. She is named for the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. She was laid down at the Bath Iron Works in Maine.

Her guided missiles and five-inch mounted guns render her capable of facing and defeating threats in air, on and in the sea, and ashore as well. She can carry up to two Seahawk LAMPS multi-purpose helicopters.

She is homeported in Norfolk, Virginia.

Operation history

On 30 November 1994, Gettysburg — along with Halyburton — was dispatched to assist the cruise ship Achille Lauro, which was on fire in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Somalia. Achille Lauro eventually sank but the passengers were rescued and transported to Mombasa, Kenya.[1][2][3]

Operation Desert Fox (16-20 December 1998)

In March 2003, the ship was assigned to Cruiser-Destroyer Group Twelve.[4]

On 13 May 2009, a team of sailors from the ship apprehended 17 pirates off the coast of Yemen, as the pirates were attempting to hijack the Egyptian ship Motor Vessel Amira.[5] The ship was filmed in her counter-piracy role and featured on the Spike TV network special U.S. Navy: Pirate Hunters.[6]

Gettysburg completed her Composite Unit Training Exercise as part of Carrier Strike Group Two on 10 February 2011.[7] Gettysburg deployed with an embarked Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 70 (HSM-70) detachment as part of Carrier Strike Group Two, departing Naval Station Mayport on 10 May 2011.[8] Gettysburg subsequently participated in NATO naval exercise Exercise Saxon Warrior off the coast of England, under the operational control of Flag Officer Sea Training (FOST). During this exercise, Gettysburg operated with the new British guided-missile destroyer HMS Dauntless (D33).[9]

Notes

  1. ↑ R. D. Reilly, Jr. (C.O. of USS Halyburton) (July 1, 1995). "Submission of Command History for Calendar Year 1994 (USS Halyburton)" (PDF). United States Navy. Retrieved March 8, 2008.
  2. ↑ "Achille Lauro sinks near Somalia". History.com. Archived from the original on February 26, 2009. Retrieved March 8, 2008.
  3. ↑ "CG 64 Gettysburg". Globalsecurity.org. Retrieved March 8, 2008.
  4. ↑ http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/usa/surface.htm, accessed May 2012
  5. ↑ Washington Times, "U.S. Sailors Catch Pirates Red-Handed", May 15, 2009, p. 11.
  6. ↑ "Spike Sails the High Seas With the US Navy in Its Search for Pirates in New One-Hour Special". Market Watch (WSJ). May 17, 2010. Retrieved June 9, 2010.
  7. ↑ Mass Communications Specialist Seaman Betsy Lynn Knapper, USN (February 17, 2011). "USS Gettysburg Completes COMPTUEX". NNS110217-02. USS Gettysburg Public Affairs. Retrieved February 17, 2011.
  8. ↑ Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Betsy Lynn Knapper, USN (May 12, 2011). "USS Gettysburg Deploys with George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group". NNS110512-19. USS Gettysburg Public Affair. Retrieved May 29, 2011.
  9. ↑ Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Betsy Lynn Knapper, USN (May 24, 2011). "Gettysburg Participates in Saxon Warrior". NNS110524-12. USS Gettysburg Public Affair. Retrieved May 29, 2011.

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