USS Antietam (CG-54)

Career
Missing image USSAntietamCG-54.jpg USS Antietam USS Antietam sails off the coast of San Diego
Ordered:	20 June 1983
Laid down:	15 November 1984
Launched:	14 February 1986
Commissioned:	6 June 1987
Decommissioned:
Status:	Template:Active in service
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	9,600 tons
Length:	567 ft (173 m)
Beam:	55 ft (16.8 m)
Draught:	33 ft (10.1 m)
Propulsion:	4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 80,000 shp (60 MW)
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h)
Range:
Complement:	387 officers and enlisted
Armament:	2 x 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 122 x RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, 8 x AGM-84 Harpoon missiles 2 x 5 in (127 mm), 2 x 25 mm, 2�4 x 12.7 mm guns, 2 x Phalanx CIWS 2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft:	2 x SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters
Motto:

USS Antietam (CG-54), named for the site of a battle between Confederate forces under General Robert E. Lee and Union forces under Major General George McClellan on 17 and 18 September 1862, is a Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser laid down by the Litton-Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation at Pascagoula in Mississippi on 15 November 1984, launched on 14 February 1986 and commissioned on 6 June 1987. Antietam operates out of San Diego in California.