USS LEYTE GULF CG55 alongside at HMNB Clyde.
Name: USS Leyte Gulf
Namesake: Battle of Leyte Gulf
Ordered: 20 June 1983
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding
Laid down: 18 March 1985
Launched: 20 June 1986
Commissioned: 26 September 1987
Homeport: Norfolk, Virginia
Identification: CG-55
Motto: Arrayed For Victory
Status: in active service
General characteristics
Class and type: Ticonderoga-class cruiser
Displacement: Approx. 9,600 long tons (9,800t) full load
Length: 567 feet (173m) She lost 2 feet after colliding with the TR
Beam: 55 feet (16.8meters)
Draft: 34 feet (10.2meters)
Propulsion: 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbine engines, 80,000shp (60,000kW)
2 × controllable-reversible pitch propellers 2 × rudders
Speed: 32.5knots (60km/h; 37.4mph)
Complement: 33 officers, 27 Chief Petty Officers, and approx. 340 enlisted
Armament: 2 × 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems containing 122 × mix of: RIM-66M-5 Standard SM-2MR Block IIIB
RIM-156A SM-2ER Block IV
RIM-161 SM-3
RIM-162A ESSM
RIM-174A Standard ERAM
BGM-109 Tomahawk
RUM-139A VL-ASROC
8 × RGM-84 Harpoon missiles
2 × Mk 45 Mod 2 5-in/54-cal lightweight gun
2 × 25mm Mk 38 gun
2–4 × .50cal (12.7mm) gun
2 × Phalanx CIWS Block 1B
2 × Mk 32 12.75in (324mm) triple torpedo tubes for lightweight torpedoes
Aircraft carried: 2 × Sikorsky SH-60B or MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters.