USS Mississippi (CGN-40)
.jpg) The Mississippi in 1991 in the Persian Gulf |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Order | January 21, 1972 |
| Keel laying | February 22, 1975 |
| Launch | July 31, 1976 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | 5th August 1978 |
| Decommissioning | July 28, 1997 |
| 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 Mississippi (CGN-40) was a nuclear cruiser of the United States Navy and belonged Virginia class at.
history
The Mississippi was commissioned from Newport News Shipbuilding in 1972 and laid down there in 1975. In 1976 the ship was launched, the christening was carried out by Miss Janet Foinch, and in 1978 she entered service with the United States Navy . The first in command was Capt. Peter M. Hekman, Jr.
In the first three years, the Mississippi carried out test drives and an initial lay-in period, as is required for all new ships.
The cruiser was first used in 1981. The Mississippi was escorting USS Nimitz (CVN-68) in the Mediterranean when the aircraft carrier's F-14 Tomcats shot down two Libyan MiGs . After the murder of Anwar al-Sadat in October, the Mississippi patrolled the coast of Egypt. The second mission also took the cruiser into the Mediterranean, in 1983/84 when the US occupied Beirut airport .
In April 1985 the Mississippi visited Bremerhaven.
From 1986 to 1987 an overhaul and modernization of the ship was carried out at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth , Virginia . The fuel rods were also replaced. In 1988/89 the third mission to the Mediterranean took place, mainly off the coast of Lebanon.
1990/91 took Mississippi at the Second Gulf War in part by air defense in the area of the Gulf of Aden made and from the Red Sea -BGM 109 Tomahawk from their Armored Box Launchers fired on targets in Iraq.
In 1992, the ship systems were overhauled and upgraded again, and later in 1993 and then trips to stop drug smuggling in the Caribbean. In 1995 the ship moved to the Mediterranean for the last time before the Mississippi was decommissioned in 1997. In 2004 dismantling began in the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard .
