USS Arkansas (CGN-41)
_1985.jpg) The Arkansas 1,985 at sea |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Order | January 31, 1975 |
| Keel laying | 17th January 1977 |
| Launch | October 21, 1978 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | October 18, 1980 |
| Decommissioning | July 7, 1998 |
| Whereabouts | Canceled |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
approx. 12,000 tn.l. fully loaded |
| length |
178.60 meters |
| width |
19.20 meters |
| Draft |
9.8 meters |
| crew |
39 officers, 539 sailors |
| drive |
2 propellers, driven by a nuclear reactor; 60,000 wave horsepower |
| speed |
30+ knots |
| Armament |
2 starter anti-aircraft missiles |
The USS Arkansas (CGN-41) was the fourth Virginia-class unit and the last nuclear cruiser built by the United States Navy .
history
The Arkansas was commissioned by Newport News Shipbuilding in 1975 and built between 1977 and 1978. The commissioning took place in 1980.
Arkansas spent the first years in the waters off the US east coast. The first mission in 1982 took the ship to the Mediterranean, where it sailed off Lebanon. In 1984, now stationed in the Pacific, the next big mission followed. Via Hawaii and the United States Naval Base Subic Bay , the ship drove into the Persian Gulf, from there through the Red Sea into the Mediterranean, through the Strait of Gibraltar through the Atlantic and the Panama Canal back into the Pacific, a complete circumnavigation of the world . Immediately afterwards, the Arkansas was docked for overhaul, with two Armored Box Launchers installed, among other things .
In January 1986, the next deployment with USS Enterprise (CVN-65) and USS Truxtun (CGN-35) followed . The group served before Libya, among other places. The Operation Desert Storm spent the cruiser with the aircraft carrier battle group to the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) .
In 1998 the ship was decommissioned and canceled in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program .
