uss mississippi (cgn-40)

colspan="2"\|
tyle="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"\|Career	style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"\|USN Jack
rdered:	21 January, 1972
aid down:	22 February 1972
aunched:	31 July 1976
ommissioned:	5 August 1978
ecommissioned:	28 July 1997
ate:	Nuclear Recycling
truck:
olspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"\|General Characteristics
isplacement:	approx. 11,300 tons full load
ength:	585 feet (178 meters)
eam:	63 feet (19.2 meters)
raught:	31,5 feet (9.6 meters)
ropulsion:	two D2G General Electric nuclear reactors
peed:	30+ knots
ange:
omplement:	39 Officers, 539 Enlisted
rmament:	two Mk-26 missile launcher for Standard missiles (MR) and ASROC, two Mk-141 Harpoon missile launchers, two armored box launchers for Tomahawk ASM/LAM, Mk-46 torpedoes from two triple mounts, two 5-inch/54 caliber Mk-45 lightweight guns, two 20mm Phalanx CIWS, four machine guns
ircraft:	None
otto:

USS Mississippi (CGN-40) was a Virginia class nuclear powered guided missile armed cruiser laid down by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry-dock Corporation at Newport News in Virginia on 22 February 1975, launched on 31 July 1976 and commissioned on 5 August 1978. USS Mississippi was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 28 July 1997 and is scheduled to enter the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program on 1 October 2004. Mississippi

Word Browser