USS Cape St. George

	USS Cape St. George (CG-71) launches a Tomahawk missile.
History
USA
Name	USS Cape St. St. George
Namesake	Battle of Cape St. George
Ordered	25 February 1988
Laid down	19 November 1990
Launched	10 January 1992
Commissioned	13 June 1993
Homeport	Naval Base San Diego
Motto	Always Victorious
Fate	Template:Ship fate box active in service
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)
Draught	34 feet (10.2 meters)
Propulsion	4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbine engines; 2 × controllable-reversible pitch propellers; 2 × rudders;
Speed	32.5 knots (60 km/h; 37.4 mph)
Complement	30 officers and 300 enlisted
Sensors and ; processing systems	AN/SPY-1A/B multi-function radar; AN/SPS-49 air search radar (Removed on some ships); 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;
Armament	2 × 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems containing; 122 × mix of:; RIM-66M-5 Standard SM-2MR Block IIIB; RIM-156A SM-2ER Block IV; RIM-161 SM-3; RIM-162A ESSM; RIM-174A Standard ERAM; BGM-109 Tomahawk; RUM-139A VL-ASROC; 8 × RGM-84 Harpoon missiles; 2 × 5 in (127 mm)/62 caliber Mark 45 Mod 4 lightweight gun; 2 × Mk 38 25 mm Machine Gun Systems; 2–4 × .50 in (12.7 mm) cal. machine gun; 2 × Phalanx CIWS Block 1B; 2 × Mk 32 12.75 in (324 mm) triple torpedo tubes;
Aircraft carried	2 × MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS Mk III helicopters.

USS Cape St. George (CG-71) is a Ticonderoga-class cruiser laid down by the Litton-Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation at Pascagoula, Mississippi on 19 November 1990, launched on 10 January 1992 and commissioned on 12 June 1993. Cape St. George operates out of San Diego in California.

Cape St. George is named for the World War II Battle of Cape St. George near New Ireland in Papua New Guinea where a U.S. Navy destroyer force led by Captain Arleigh Burke defeated a Japanese destroyer force on 25 November 1943.

In May 2005, Cape St. George became the first surface warship certified to use only digital nautical charts (DNC), instead of paper charts using the Voyage Management System. About 12,000 paper charts have been replaced by 29 computer discs. VMS is part of the Smart Ship Integrated Bridge System, which has been under development since 1990.

On 18 March 2006, she was involved in a firefight with suspected pirates, along with the USS Gonzalez. The two U.S. warships exchanged fire with the suspected pirates about 25 nautical miles off the coast of Somalia. Initial reports indicated that one suspected pirate was killed and five others wounded while Cape St. George took superficial damage from small arms fire during the action.

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.

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Mark 26 twin-arm missile launcher ships	Ticonderoga Yorktown Vincennes Valley Forge Thomas S. Gates
Mark 41 vertical launching system ships	Bunker Hill Mobile Bay Antietam Leyte Gulf San Jacinto Lake Champlain Philippine Sea Princeton Normandy Monterey Chancellorsville / Robert Smalls Cowpens Gettysburg Chosin Hué City Shiloh Anzio Vicksburg Lake Erie Cape St. George Vella Gulf Port Royal
Preceded by: Virginia class Followed by: CG(X) (planned), Flight III Arleigh Burke-class (actual), DDG(X) (actual)
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