| USS Mississippi (CGN-40) | |
|---|---|
 USS Mississippi (CGN-40) | |
| Career (US) |  |
| Name: | Mississippi |
| Namesake: | State of Mississippi |
| Ordered: | 21 January 1972 |
| Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company |
| Laid down: | 22 February 1975 |
| Launched: | 31 July 1976 |
| Acquired: | 14 July 1978 |
| Commissioned: | 5 August 1978 |
| Decommissioned: | 28 July 1997 |
| Struck: | 28 July 1997 |
| Motto: | Virtute et armis (By valor and arms) |
| Fate: | Stricken to be recycled |
| Status: | Berthed at NAVSEA Inactive Ships On-site Maintenance Office, Bremerton, WA |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Virginia class cruiser |
| Displacement: | approx. 11,300 tons full load |
| Length: | 585 ft (178 m) |
| Beam: | 63 ft (19 m) |
| Draft: | 31.5 ft (9.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | Twin D2G General Electric nuclear reactors |
| Speed: | 30+ knots |
| Range: | Nuclear |
| Complement: | 39 Officers, 539 Enlisted |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
AN/SPS-48 3-D Air search radar AN/SPS-49 2-D Air search radar AN/SPS-55 surface search radar AN/SPQ-9 gun fire control radar AN/SPG-51 Missile fire control radar |
| Electronic warfare & decoys: |
AN/SLQ-32 Mark 36 SRBOC |
| Armament: |
-Two Mk-26 "dual-arm" missile launchers for Standard missile (SAMs) and/or "matchbox" ASROC "anti-submarine" rockets (68 missiles) -Two Mk-141 Harpoon missile launchers -Two "armored box" ASM/LAM launchers for Tomahawk missile -Two "triple-mount" Mk 46 torpedo launchers -Two Mk-45 (5 inch/54 caliber) "lightweight" guns -Two Phalanx CIWS (20 mm) "anti-missile" systems -Four machine guns |
| Aircraft carried: |
As built: Helicopter pad (Afterdeck) with hangar / elevator – until later retrofit to Tomahawk launchers. |
USS Mississippi (CGN-40), a Virginia class, nuclear fuel powered, U.S. Navy guided-missile cruiser, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the 20th state admitted to the Union. Her keel was laid down by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company at Newport News, Virginia, on 22 February 1975. She was launched on 31 July 1976. The ship was commissioned on 5 August 1978 by president Jimmy Carter, then serving as the 39th President of the United States. Early deployment included escorting the carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68). She also was deployed in 1989 as a response to the capture and subsequent murder of U.S. Marine Corps Colonel William R. Higgins by terrorists.
The USS Mississippi (CGN-40) was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 28 July 1997. The ship was prepared and then towed from Norfolk, VA to Bremerton, WA via the Panama Canal from March 1998 to May 1998. The MSC fleet tug USNS Mohawk began the tow until Mississippi was moored at Rodman Naval Station, Panama. The Pacific tow was completed by the USNS Navajo.
Mississippi entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program around October 2004.
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