USS Antietam (CG-54)

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The Antietam in the Pacific, 2007
The Antietam in the Pacific, 2007
Overview
Order June 20, 1983
Keel laying November 15, 1984
Launch February 14, 1986
1. Period of service flag
Commissioning June 6, 1987
Technical specifications
displacement

9750 tons

length

173 meters

width

16.80 meters

Draft

10.2 meters

crew

approx. 390

drive

Four gas turbines, two shafts together 80,000 hp

speed

30+ knots

Armament

2 launchers for anti-ship missiles, 2 triple torpedo launchers, 2 guns 127 mm, 122 VLS cells

The USS Antietam (CG-54) is a United States Navy guided missile cruiser and belongs to the Ticonderoga class . It was named after the Battle of Antietam in 1862. Home port is Yokosuka , Japan.

history

CG-54 was commissioned in 1983 and laid down at Ingalls Shipbuilding in November 1984 . After 15 months, the cruiser was launched and was christened Antietam . In the summer of 1987 the ship was put into service in the port of Baltimore and added to the fleet.

The Antietam then reached its first home port, Long Beach in California, through the Panama Canal . The first lay began in September 1988 and took the ship to the Persian Gulf , where it took part in Operation Earnest Will . The second mission began in June 1990, during which the ship was to remain in the Pacific. However, the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent Gulf War caused plans to be changed, and the Antietam entered the Arabian Sea in August. There she granted air protection to the ships present. In 1992 the cruiser took part in a series of exercises with friendly navies in the Pacific. In 1993 she was back in the Gulf as part of Operation Southern Watch , followed by the first regular overhaul in the Long Beach Naval Shipyard .

In 1996 the cruiser took part in the RIMPAC exercise, in 1997 it drove into the Gulf again, it was part of the escort of the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) , and in 1998 it again took part in the RIMPAC exercise. In 2001 the Antietam was in the Persian Gulf with the carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) . The Vinson was also relocated to the western Pacific in 2003 and then to the Persian Gulf again in 2005. Since the Vinson then went into the shipyard, the next voyage followed in 2007 on the side of the USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) , with which she sailed again in 2009 to the Western Pacific.

The ship's propellers were damaged when it hit the ground on January 31, 2017 in Tokyo Bay and 1,100 gallons of oil spilled into the water. The ship returned to port with tug assistance.

Web links

Commons : USS Antietam  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ US Navy Ship Runs Aground Off Japan - gCaptain . In: gCaptain . January 31, 2017 ( gcaptain.com [accessed February 4, 2017]).