USS Yorktown (CG-48)

USS Yorktown (CG-48)


For other ships of the same name, see USS Yorktown.

Yorktown, Sept 1, 1985, Caribbean
Career (US)
Name: Yorktown
Operator: United States Navy
Ordered: 28 April 1980
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding
Laid down: 19 October 1981
Launched: 17 January 1983
Commissioned: 4 July 1984
Decommissioned: 10 December 2004
Struck: 10 December 2004
Motto: "Victory is our tradition"
Status: In reserve at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania scheduled for scrapping within the next five years.
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General characteristics
Class & 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)
Complement: 33 officers, 27 Chief Petty Officers, and approx. 340 enlisted
Sensors and
processing systems:

AN/SPY-1A/B multi-function radar
AN/SPS-49 air search radar
AN/SPG-62 fire control radar
AN/SPS-73 surface search radar
AN/SPQ-9 gun fire control radar
AN/SQQ-89(V)1/3 - A(V)15 Sonar suite, consisting of

  • AN/SQS-53B/C/D active sonar
  • AN/SQR-19 TACTAS, AN/SQR-19B ITASS, & MFTA passive sonar
  • AN/SQQ-28 light airborne multi-purpose system
AN/SLQ-32 Electronic Warfare Suite
Armament: 2 × Mk 26 missile launchers
68 × RIM-66 SM-2, and 20 × RUR-5 ASROC
8 × RGM-84 Harpoon missiles
2 × Mark 45 5 in / 54 cal lightweight gun
2–4 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) gun
2 × Phalanx CIWS
2 × Mk 32 12.75 in (324 mm) triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried: 2 × Sikorsky SH-60B or MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters.

USS Yorktown (DDG-48/CG-48) was a Ticonderoga-class cruiser in the United States Navy from 1984 to 2004, named for the American Revolutionary War Battle of Yorktown.

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