USS San Jacinto (CG-56)
9750 tons
173 meters
16.80 meters
10.2 meters
About 390
Four gas turbines, two shafts together with 80,000 hp
30 nodes
2 starter for anti-ship missiles, 2 triple torpedo launchers, 2 guns 127 mm, 122 VLS cells
The USS San Jacinto (CG -56) Guided Missile Cruiser is a United States Navy and is a member of the Ticonderoga class.
History
Construction
The San Jacinto in 1983 at Ingalls Shipbuilding in order given and 1985 there Keel-laying. The launch took place after a construction period of 16 months, the commissioning took place in early 1988. The ship was named after the Battle of San Jacinto during the Texas Revolution.
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The first use of the San Jacinto led the ship into the Mediterranean in 1989. Also in 1990, the cruiser moved into the Mediterranean where she participated in Operation Desert Shield. In 1991, she was the first ship that fired a BGM -109 Tomahawk in combat. In 1992, the San Jacinto part in the exercise UNITAS XXXIII and circumnavigated the South American continent.
1994 drove the cruiser as part of the aircraft carrier battle group led by the USS George Washington ( CVN -73) in the Central and Red Sea. At the beginning of the no-fly zone over Bosnia was enforced, later also observed troop movements in Iraq. 1996, again with George Washington, exercises followed with the Russian Navy in the Mediterranean. Thereafter, the first overhaul took place.
Following, in 1998, moved the San Jacinto with the USS John C. Stennis (CVN -74 ) in the Gulf, where she participated in Operation Southern Watch. Had performed the same function as the air defense of the cruiser when laying in 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, protected during Operation Iraqi Freedom as well as the USS Theodore Roosevelt ( CVN -71). From the Red Sea missed the San Jaconto 29 Tomahawks at targets in Iraq.
In June 2004, after participating in the exercise BALTOPS, visited the San Jacinto Germany, put in Kiel. She stayed from 18 to 21 June. 2006 was followed by other operations with the Roosevelt, in the spring of 2007, then training rides with Truman. Again, on the side of Truman led San Jacinto from November 2007 Maritime Security Operations through the Middle East. In 2010 she moved without carrier accompaniment again in the Persian Gulf.
On October 13, 2012 There was a collision between the ship and the Los Angeles-class submarine USS Montpelier. According to the U.S. Navy no one was injured and both vessels were able to continue on their own. The Reuters news agency reported, citing an anonymous source that the sonar dome was damaged.