USS Mississippi (CGN-40)
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.JPG/300px-USS_Mississippi_(CGN-40).JPG) USS Mississippi (CGN-40) |
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| Career (US) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | Mississippi |
| Namesake: | State of Mississippi |
| Ordered: | 21 January 1972 |
| Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company |
| Laid down: | 22 February 1975 |
| Launched: | 31 July 1976 |
| Acquired: | July 14, 1978 |
| Commissioned: | 5 August 1978 |
| Decommissioned: | 28 July 1997 |
| Struck: | 28 July 1997 |
| Fate: | Stricken to be recycled |
| Status: | Berthed at NAVSEA Inactive Ships On-site Maintenance Office, Bremerton, WA |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Virginia class cruiser |
| Displacement: | approx. 11,300 tons full load |
| Length: | 585 ft (178 m) |
| Beam: | 63 ft (19 m) |
| Draft: | 31.5 ft (9.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | Twin D2G General Electric nuclear reactors |
| Speed: | 30+ knots |
| Range: | Nuclear |
| Complement: | 39 Officers, 539 Enlisted |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
AN/SPS-48 3-D Air search radar AN/SPS-49 2-D Air search radar AN/SPS-55 surface search radar AN/SPQ-9 gun fire control radar AN/SPG-51 Missile fire control radar |
| Electronic warfare and decoys: |
AN/SLQ-32 Mark 36 SRBOC |
| Armament: | Two Mk-26 "dual-arm" missile launchers for Standard missile (SAMs) and/or "matchbox" ASROC "anti-submarine" rockets (68 missiles) two Mk-141 Harpoon missile launchers two "armored box" ASM/LAM launchers for Tomahawk missile Two "triple-mount" Mk 46 torpedo launchers two Mk-45 (5 inch/54 caliber) "lightweight" guns Two Phalanx CIWS (20 mm) "anti-missile" systems four machine guns |
| Aircraft carried: |
As built: Helicopter pad (Afterdeck) with hangar / elevator until occupied by Tomahawk launchers. |
| Motto: | By valor and arms |
USS Mississippi (CGN-40), a Virginia class, nuclear fuel powered, U.S. Navy guided-missile cruiser, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the 20th state.
Her keel was laid down by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company at Newport News, Virginia, on 22 February 1975. She was launched on 31 July 1976. The ship was commissioned on 5 August 1978 by President Jimmy Carter, then serving as the 39th President of the United States.
Her armament capability included Harpoon and Tomahawk missiles and Mk46 torpedoes. She carried a crew of 39 officers and 539 enlisted sailors.
She first saw real action while escorting the carrier USS Nimitz when F-14 fighters from that carrier shot down two Libyan fighter jets. She was called upon during that deployment to patrol off the shore of Egypt after President Anwar Sadat was assassinated. She also deployed in response to the killing of Marine Corps Colonel Higgins by terrorists in 1989. For Operation Desert Shield in 1990 and Operation Desert Storm in 1991, she deployed with the U.S.S. John F. Kennedy Battle Group with only five days notice to prepare. She launched Tomahawk cruise missiles deep inside Iraq in early 1991.
Over the years, the ship received awards for battle efficiency, personnel retention and other standards of excellence.
The USS Mississippi (CGN-40) was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 28 July 1997, and she entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program around October 2004.
Her bell is securely installed in the gardens at Rosalie Mansion, on the site of Fort Rosalie overlooking the Mississippi River[1].
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