USS Chosin (CG-65)

The Chosin in Pearl Harbor (2002)
Overview
Order	January 8, 1986
Keel laying	July 2nd, 1988
Launch	September 1, 1989
1. Period of service
Commissioning	January 12, 1991
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 Chosin (CG-65) is a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy and belongs Ticonderoga-class cruiser to. It was named after the battle of the Changjin Reservoir (English Chosin Reservoir ) in the Korean War .

history

CG-65 was commissioned in 1986 and laid down at Ingalls Shipbuilding in 1988 . Around 14 months later, the ship was launched and was christened. It was put into service at the beginning of 1991. The Chosin was stationed in Pearl Harbor , Hawaii.

At the end of 1992, the first mission to the Pacific began, which took the ship to Australia, among other places. In February 1993, an eight-week overhaul followed in the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard . From 1994 to 1995 the cruiser took part in Operation Southern Watch alongside the USS Constellation (CV-64) in the Persian Gulf . In May 1995 the ship reached Pearl Harbor again. In 1996, she took part in the RIMPAC exercise , and in 1997 she was relocated: Via Australia, the Chosin drove back into the Gulf alongside the Constellation . The cruiser then reached Hawaii via Apra Harbor in September. Similar relocations took place in 1999 and 2001. This was followed by an eight-month layover in Pearl Harbor.

In 2003 the Chosin took place alongside the USS Nimitz (CVN-68) in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom . Also in 2005 the cruiser sailed the Persian Gulf as an escort for the USS Tarawa (LHA-1) . In 2006 he took part in an exercise with the Russian Navy and in 2007 he laid alongside the USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) in the Pacific.

In April 2008 it was announced that the ship was temporarily decommissioned due to massive corrosion and other deficiencies in electronics and armament. It was not until August 2009 that the Chosin took part in an operation again when she moved alongside the Nimitz into the Pacific and further into the Indic. There the cruiser drove among other things as part of the international task force 151 in the Gulf of Aden. In the summer of 2010 he took part in RIMPAC again.

In January 2011, the Chosin began an overhaul in the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard , for which around 50 million dollars were estimated.

A decommissioning planned for 2012 was not carried out. Instead, the Chosin took part in the internal exercise Koa Kai near Hawaii in January 2014 , which was intended to check the readiness of the naval units in the Eastern Pacific, and in June of that year it was used in the 24th RIMPAC exercise. In October 2014 she took part in the annual Fleet Week in San Francisco, after which she completed an exercise off the coast of California in the wake of the USS Nimitz and with ships from other nations.

Web links

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

• Entry in the Naval Vessel Register (Engl.)
• official website (English).