USS Antietam (CG-54)

9750 tons

173 meters

16.80 meters

10.2 meters

About 390

Four gas turbines, two shafts together 80,000 hp

30 nodes

2 starter for anti-ship missiles, 2 triple torpedo launchers, 2 guns 127 mm, 122 VLS cells

The USS Antietam (CG- 54) is a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy and is a member of the Ticonderoga class. It was named after the Battle of Antietam in 1862.

History

CG- 54 was commissioned in 1983 and established in November 1984 at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Kiel. After 15 months, the cruiser was launched and was baptized in the name of Antietam. In the summer of 1987 the ship in the port of Baltimore was put into service and thus incorporated into the fleet.

Through the Panama Canal, the Antietam reached its first home port, Long Beach in California in connection. The first installation began in September 1988 and led the ship in the Persian Gulf, where it participated in Operation Earnest Will. In June 1990, the second insert, during which the ship should remain in the Pacific began. However, the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent Gulf War caused a change of plans, the Antietam ran in August into the Arabian Sea. There she granted the ships present air protection. In 1992, the cruiser participated in a series of exercises with friendly navies in the Pacific. In 1993 she ran as part of Operation Southern Watch again in the Gulf, then followed by the first regular overhaul at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard.

In 1996, the cruiser in the exercise RIMPAC in part, in 1997 he went once more into the Gulf, he was part of the escort of the USS Kitty Hawk (CV -63 ), 1998 he again took part in the exercise RIMPAC. 2001 was the Antietam with the carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN -70) in the Persian Gulf. With the Vinson also laying 2003 took place in the Western Pacific held in 2005 then a second time in the Persian Gulf. Since the Vinson went into the shipyard thereafter, followed the next trip in 2007 on the side of the USS John C. Stennis (CVN -74 ), with which they again went to the Western Pacific in 2009.