Ship Design Characteristics

 Built by:

Ingalls Shipbuilding
Division of Litton Industries
Pascagoula, Mississippi
 

Keel Laid:
12 November 1976
 

Christened:
27 May 1978
 

Commissioned:
25 August 1979

Length: 563 Feet 4 Inches  

Beam: 55 feet 

 
Draft: 29 feet 

 
Displacement: 8400 Tons  

Complement: 

Officers - 24 

Enlisted - 320  

Speed: 30+ Knots 

 Armament: 

Two 5" 54 Cal. Gun Mounts 

MK 112 ASROC Launcher 

Two MK 32 Torpedo Tubes 

NATO Seasparrow 

Harpoon 

Close In Weapons System (CIWS) 

Tomahawk  

Aircraft: Two SH-3 or Two SH-2 Helicopters  

Propulsion: Four General Electric LM 2500 Marine Gas Turbine Engines (Total - 80,000 Shaft Horsepower)