USS Mississippi (CGN-40)

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Career

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.

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See USS Mississippi for other ships of the same name. She served in both the Desert Shield and Desert Storm campaigns to free Kuwait from the invading Iraqi armies.