USS San Jacinto CG-56



Name: USS San Jacinto
Namesake: Battle of San Jacinto
Ordered: 20 June 1983
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding
Laid down: 24 July 1985
Launched: 14 November 1986
Commissioned: 23 January 1988
Homeport: Norfolk, Virginia
Identification: CG-56
Motto: Victory is Certain
Nickname(s): San Jac
Status: in active service
Badge: USS San Jacinto CG-56 Crest.png
General characteristics
Class and type: Ticonderoga-class cruiser
Displacement: Approx. 9,600 long tons (9,800 t) full load
Length: 567 feet (173 m)
Beam: 55 feet (16.8 meters)
Draft: 34 feet (10.2 meters)
Propulsion:
  • 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbine engines, 80,000 shaft horsepower (60,000 kW)
  • 2 × controllable-reversible pitch propellers
  • 2 × rudders
Speed: 32.5 knots (60 km/h; 37.4 mph)
Complement: 33 officers, 27 Chief Petty Officers, and approx. 340 enlisted
Sensors and
processing systems:
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 2 × Sikorsky SH-60B or MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters.

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