USS Mobile Bay (CG-53)

Mobile Bay returned to San Diego in 2003 from an Iraq mission
Overview
Order	January 15, 1982
Keel laying	June 6, 1984
Launch	August 22, 1985
1. Period of service
Commissioning	February 21, 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 with a total of 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 Mobile Bay (CG-53) is a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy and belongs Ticonderoga-class cruiser to. The ship was named after the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864. David Glasgow Farragut led his fleet there to victory over the Confederate States of America under Franklin Buchanan .

history

CG-53 was commissioned in 1982 and laid down at Ingalls Shipbuilding in 1984 . In 1985 the Mobile Bay was launched and named. The commissioning took place in 1987, the cruiser was stationed in Mayport , Florida .

The ship's first mission was in the Gulf of Oman in 1989, and in 1990 Mobile Bay was relocated to Yokosuka in Japan. In the same year it was used from there as part of the Second Gulf War. During this voyage, Mobile Bay monitored air traffic for a group of four aircraft carriers and launched 22 BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles . In 1991, the cruiser helped evacuate personnel from United States Naval Base Subic Bay after the Pinatubo eruption in Operation Fiery Vigil. In 1992 he was back in the Gulf to help run Operation Southern Watch . Mobile Bay was also in the region in 1993/1994 . In May 1994 the RIMPAC exercise was due.

In 1999 the cruiser operated, among other places, in Formosa Street and off Korea, and later as part of INTERFET off East Timor . In 2000 the ship was again stationed in the USA, in San Diego . In 2001, technologies from the Smart Ship Project were installed on Mobile Bay , and at the end of the year it was operating to combat drug smuggling in the Caribbean.

In 2002, the cruiser laid alongside the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) as part of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom . In 2004 a transfer to the Gulf region followed on the side of the USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3) , in 2006, as in 2008, again with Lincoln . From the end of 2011 the Mobile Bay sailed alongside the USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) in the Indian Ocean and from the beginning of 2012 in the Pacific region.

Web links

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

• Entry in the Naval Vessel Register (Engl.)
• Official Homepage (Engl.)