USS Mississippi (CGN-40)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

USS Mississippi (CGN-40)
Career USN Jack
Ordered: 21 January 1972
Laid down: 22 February 1975
Launched: 31 July 1976
Commissioned: 5 August 1978
Decommissioned: 28 July 1997
Fate: Nuclear Recycling
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement: approx. 11,300 tons full load
Length: 585 feet (178 meters)
Beam: 63 feet (19.2 meters)
Draft: 31,5 feet (9.6 meters)
Propulsion: two D2G General Electric nuclear reactors
Speed: 30+ knots
Range: Unlimited
Complement: 39 Officers, 539 Enlisted
Armament: Two Mk-26 missile launcher for "Standard" SAMs and ASROC (68 missiles), two Mk-141 Harpoon missile launchers, two armored box launchers for Tomahawk missile ASM/LAM, Mk-46 torpedoes from two triple mounts, two 5 inch/54 caliber Mk-45 lightweight guns, two 20 mm Phalanx CIWS, four machine guns
Aircraft: None
Nicknames: Mudsucker or H.O.T.B.

USS Mississippi (CGN-40) was a Virginia class nuclear powered guided missile armed cruiser laid down by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry-dock Corporation at Newport News in Virginia on 22 February 1975, launched on 31 July 1976 and commissioned on 5 August 1978. USS Mississippi was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 28 July 1997 and entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program around 1 October 2004.

[edit] See also

See USS Mississippi for other ships of the same name.

[edit] External links


Virginia-class guided missile cruiser
Virginia | Texas | Mississippi | Arkansas

List of United States Navy cruisers
In other languages