USS Yorktown (CG-48)
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| Missing image USS_Yorktown_(CG-48);04014806.jpg USS Yorktown (CG-48), Sept 1, 1985, Caribbean | |
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| Ordered: | 28 April 1980 |
| Laid down: | 19 October 1981 |
| Launched: | 17 January 1983 |
| Commissioned: | 4 July 1984 |
| Decommissioned: | 3 December 2004 |
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| Displacement: | 9,600 tons |
| Length: | 567 ft (173 m) |
| Beam: | 55 ft (16.8 m) |
| Draft: | 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) |
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| Complement: | 387 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 2 × Mk 26 missile launchers, 88 × RIM-67 SM-2, 8 × AGM-84 Harpoon missiles; 2 × 5 in (127 mm), 2–4 × 12.7 mm guns, 2 × Phalanx CIWS 2 × Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes |
| Aircraft: | 2 × SH-2 Seasprite helicopters |
| Motto: | Victory is our tradition |
USS Yorktown (CG-48) was a Ticonderoga-class cruiser in the United States Navy from 1984 to 2004, named for the American Revolutionary War Battle of Yorktown.
Yorktown was commissioned on July 4, 1984 at Yorktown, Virginia, and was designed to take advantage of the American AEGIS technology. Among its various weapon systems are surface to air missiles (SAMs), anti-ship/anti-submarine missiles, torpedo launchers, and a mounted cannon. The cruiser was last homeported in Pascagoula, Miss., and is now berthed at the Naval Inactive Ships Maintenance Facility, Philadelphia, Penn.
- 12 years of history go here
Smart ship testbed
From 1996 Yorktown was used as the test bed for the Navy's Smart Ship program. The ship was equipped with a network of 27 dual 200 MHz Pentium Pro based machines running Windows NT 4.0 communicating over fiber-optical cable with a Pentium Pro based server. This network was responsible for running the integrated control center on the bridge, monitoring condition assessment, damage control, machinery control and fuel control, monitoring the engines and navigating the ship. This system was estimated to save $2.8 million per year by reducing the ships complement by 10%.
In September 21, 1997 while on maneuvers off the coast of Cape Charles, Virginia, a crew member entered a zero into a database field causing a divide by zero error in the ships Remote Data Base Manager which brought down all the machines on the network, causing the ships propulsion system to fail.
Anthony DiGiorgio, a civilian contractor with a 26-year history of working on Navy control systems, reported in 1998 that the Yorktown had to be towed back to Norfolk, Virginia naval base. Ron Redman, a deputy technical director with the Aegis Program Executive Office, backed this claim up, suggesting that such system failures had required Yorktown to be towed back to port several times.
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However Vice Admiral Henry Griffin denied this, reporting that Yorktown was dead in the water for just 2 hours and 45 minutes. Captain Richard Rushton, commanding officer of Yorktown at the time of the incident, also denied that the ship had to be towed back to port, stating that the ship returned under its own power.
Yorktown was decommissioned on 3 December 2004.
See USS Yorktown for other Navy ships of the same name.
External links
- USS Yorktown webpage (http://www.navysite.de/cg/cg48.html)
- Software glitches leave Navy Smart Ship dead in the water (http://www.gcn.com/archives/gcn/1998/july13/cov2.htm) from Government Computer News
- Sunk by Windows NT (http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,13987,00.html) from Wired News
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register.
| Ticonderoga-class cruiser |
| Ticonderoga | Yorktown | Vincennes | Valley Forge | Thomas S. Gates | Bunker Hill | Mobile Bay | Antietam | Leyte Gulf | San Jacinto | Lake Champlain | Philippine Sea | Princeton | Normandy | Monterey | Chancellorsville | Cowpens | Gettysburg | Chosin | Hue City | Shiloh | Anzio | Vicksburg | Lake Erie | Cape St. George | Vella Gulf | Port Royal |
| List of cruisers of the United States Navy |