USS Antietam underway after leaving her homeport of San Diego, California in 2004
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Name | Antietam |
Namesake | Battle of Antietam |
Ordered | 20 June 1983 |
Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi |
Laid down | 15 November 1984 |
Launched | 14 February 1986 |
Commissioned | 6 June 1987 |
Decommissioned | 27 September 2024 |
Homeport | Pearl Harbor, HI |
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Motto | Power to Prevail |
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Class and type | Ticonderoga-class guided missile 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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Aircraft carried | 2 × MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS Mk III helicopters. |
USS Antietam (CG-54) was a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy. Antietam was named for the site of the 1862 Battle of Antietam, Maryland, between Confederate forces under General Robert E. Lee and Union forces under Major General George McClellan, during the American Civil War. Antietam earned the 2007 and 2008 Battle Efficiency awards, also known as the "Navy E" or "Battle E" award, for the John C. Stennis Strike Group.