USS Thomas S. Gates (CG-51)
_man_the_rails_as_the_ship_gets_underway_from_its_homeport_at_Naval_Station_Pascagoula.jpg) The Thomas S. Gates 2004 in Pascagoula |
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| Overview | |
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| Order | May 20, 1980 |
| Keel laying | August 31, 1984 |
| Launch | December 14, 1985 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | June 22, 1987 |
| Decommissioning | December 15, 2005 |
| 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 Harpoon, 2 triple torpedo launchers, 2 guns 127 mm, 2 twin-arm launchers for missiles SM-2 |
The USS Thomas S. Gates (CG-51) is a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy and is one of the Ticonderoga class at. It is named after Thomas S. Gates , who was Secretary of State for the Navy from 1957 to 1959 and Secretary of Defense from 1959 to 1961 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower .
history
CG-51 was commissioned in 1980 and built by Bath Iron Works from 1984 to 1985 . In 1987 the Thomas S. Gates was put into service.
The Thomas S. Gates was decommissioned in 2005. The main reason for the early decommissioning is the outdated weapon system. Unlike the newer Ticonderogas, the Thomas S. Gates does not have a vertical launching system , but a Mk. 26 double-arm starter. Since the appropriate missiles are no longer produced for this purpose, the Thomas S. Gates was essentially defenseless and therefore deactivated. It is now to be scrapped in Arabi, Louisiana .
Web links
- Entry in the Naval Vessel Register (English)
- USS Thomas S. Gates (CG-51) on globalsecurity.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ USS THOMAS S. GATES. Retrieved July 2, 2017 .