USS Yorktown  - Ticonderoga Class Aegis Cruiser      
United States Navy
USS Arthur W. Radford (DD-968),  
USS Yorktown (CG-48) 
USS Yorktown (CG-48) 
Peter Wilson Photo
Length: 567 feet   
Beam: 55 feet   
Draft: 34 feet
Speed: 30+ knots   
Displacement: 9,600 tonnes
Propulsion: 4 General Electric LM-2500 gas turbine engines (20,000 shaft horsepower each, or 80,000 Total); 2 controllable-reversible pitch propellers
2 Rudders 
Crew: 364 
Armament: MK26 missile launcher (CG 47 thru CG 51) or MK41 vertical launching system (CG 52 thru CG 73) Standard Missile (MR); Anti-Submarine Rocket (ASROC); Tomahawk ASM/LAM; Six MK-46 torpedoes (from two triple mounts); Two MK 45 5-inch/54 caliber lightweight guns; Two Phalanx
close-in-weapons systems 
Commissioned: July 4, 1984  
Home Port: Pascagoula, Mississippi
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