USS San Jacinto (CG-56)
_Parade_of_Ships.jpg) The San Jacinto during the 2007 New York Navy Parade |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Order | June 20, 1983 |
| Keel laying | July 24, 1985 |
| Launch | November 14, 1986 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | January 23, 1988 |
| 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 San Jacinto (CG-56) is a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy and belongs Ticonderoga-class cruiser to.
history
construction
The San Jacinto was commissioned by Ingalls Shipbuilding in 1983 and laid down there in 1985. The launch took place after a construction period of 16 months, the commissioning took place in early 1988. The ship was named as the third ship in the US Navy after the Battle of San Jacinto during the Texan Revolution .
Calls
The first mission of the San Jacinto took the ship into the Mediterranean in 1989. Also in 1990 the cruiser moved to the Mediterranean, where she took part in Operation Desert Shield . In 1991 she was the first ship to fire a BGM-109 Tomahawk in battle. In 1992 the San Jacinto took part in the exercise UNITAS XXXIII and circumnavigated the South American continent.
In 1993 the USS San Jacinto visited Wilhelmshaven as part of the weekend at Jade. There she lay for 3 days in the large sea lock in the 4th entrance .
In 1994 the cruiser sailed as part of the aircraft carrier combat group around the USS George Washington (CVN-73) in the Mediterranean and Red Seas. At the beginning the no-fly zone was enforced over Bosnia, later troop movements in Iraq were also observed. 1996, again with the George Washington , followed exercises with the Russian Navy in the Mediterranean. Then the first overhaul took place.
Subsequently, in 1998, the San Jacinto moved with the USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) into the Gulf, where she took part in Operation Southern Watch . The cruiser had the same task as air defense when it was transferred to the Gulf in 2000, this time with the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) .
In December 2002 the ship sailed again with the Harry S. Truman , but also protected the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) during Operation Iraqi Freedom . The San Jacinto fired 29 tomahawks from the Red Sea at targets in Iraq.
In June 2004, after taking part in the BALTOPS exercise , the San Jacinto visited Germany and berthed in Kiel . She stayed from June 18th to June 21st. Further operations with the Roosevelt followed in 2006, followed by training trips with Truman in spring 2007 . Again at the side of the Truman , San Jacinto carried out maritime security operations in the Middle East from November 2007 . In 2010 she moved again to the Persian Gulf without a porter.
On October 13, 2012, there was a collision between the ship and the Los Angeles-class submarine USS Montpelier . According to the US Navy, nobody was injured and both ships were able to continue on their own. Reuters news agency reported, citing an anonymous source, that the sonar dome was damaged.
Before the guided missile cruiser USS San Jacinto (CG-56) there were already two ships with the same name in the US Navy. The frigate USS San Jacinto (1850) was in service from 1850 to 1865 and the Independence- class light aircraft carrier USS San Jacinto (CVL-30) from 1943 to 1947 .
Web links
- Entry in the Naval Vessel Register (Engl.)
- Official Homepage (Engl.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Google Groups. In: groups.google.com. Retrieved October 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Cruiser collides with nuclear sub off US East Coast , BBC. October 14, 2012.