![]() USS Gettysburg on 9 July 2004
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Name | Gettysburg |
Namesake | Battle of Gettysburg |
Ordered | 8 January 1986 |
Builder | Bath Iron Works |
Laid down | 17 August 1988 |
Launched | 22 July 1989 |
Sponsored by | Julie Nixon Eisenhower |
Commissioned | 22 June 1991 |
Homeport | Norfolk |
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Motto | Deeds Not Words |
Status | In Service[1] |
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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) |
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Speed | 32.5 knots (60 km/h; 37.4 mph) |
Complement | 30 officers and 300 enlisted |
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Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 2 × MH-60R helicopters |
USS Gettysburg (CG-64) is a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser in the United States Navy. She is named for the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.