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Entering Portmouth harbour. 28-5-2010
USS Mount Whitney
Ordered: 10 August 1966 Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company Laid down: 8 January 1969 Launched: 8 January 1970 Commissioned: 16 January 1971 Homeport: Gaeta, Italy
General characteristics
Displacement: 18,400 tons full load Length: 189 metres (620.1 ft)
Beam: 33 metres (108.3 ft) Draft: 906.78 centimetres (29.8 ft) full load Propulsion: Two boilers, one geared turbine Capacity: 930 Complement: 170 officers and enlisted men; and 155 Military Sealift Command civilian sailors
Armament: Two Phalanx CIWS
Two 25 mm Bushmaster cannons
Four .50 cal. machine guns, Mark 36 SRBOC chaff rockets
Aircraft carried: One helicopter, currently a SH-60 Knight Hawk
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