uss cape st. george (cg-71)

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rdered:	25 February 1988
aid down:	19 November 1990
aunched:	10 January 1992
ommissioned:	13 April 1993
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isplacement:	9,600 tons
ength:	567 ft
eam:	55 ft
raught:	33 ft
ropulsion:	4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 80,000 shp
peed:	30+ knots
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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, 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
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USS Cape St. George (CG-71), named for the site of a World War II naval action off New Ireland in the Solomon Islands where a U.S. Navy destroyer force led by Captain Arleigh Burke defeated a Japanese destroyer force on 25 November 1943, is a Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser laid down by the Litton-Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation at Pascagoula in Mississippi on 19 November 1990, launched on 10 January 1992 and commissioned on 12 June 1993. Cape St. George operates out of Norfolk in Virginia.

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