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Uss Antietam (Cg-54) align="center" colspan="2"| USS Antietam sails off the coast of San Diego | | lign ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career | align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"| | | rdered: | 20 June 1983 | | aid down: | 15 November 1984 | | aunched: | 14 February 1986 | | ommissioned: | 6 June 1987 | | ecommissioned: | | | tatus: | | | truck: | | | olspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|General Characteristics | | isplacement: | 9,600 tons | | ength: | 567 ft (173 m) | | eam: | 55 ft (16.8 m) | | raught: | 33 ft (10.1 m) | | ropulsion: | 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 80,000 shp (60 MW) | | peed: | 30 knots (56 km/h) | | ange: | | | omplement: | 387 officers and enlisted | | rmament: | 2 x 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 122 x RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-Asroc, 8 x AGM-84 Harpoon missiles 2 x 5 in (127 mm), 2 x 25 mm, 24 x 12.7 mm guns, 2 x Phalanx CIWS 2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes | | ircraft: | 2 x SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters | | otto: | USS Antietam (CG-54), named for the site of a battle between Confederate forces under General Robert E. Lee and Union forces under Major General George McClellan on 17 and 18 September 1862, is a Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser laid down by the Litton-Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation at Pascagoula in Mississippi on 15 November 1984, launched on 14 February 1986 and commissioned on 6 June 1987. Antietam operates out of San Diego in California. External link
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