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Name: USS Princeton
Namesake: Battle of Princeton
Ordered: 16 December 1983
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding
Laid down: 15 October 1986
Launched: 2 October 1987
Commissioned: 11 February 1989
Homeport: San Diego, California
Motto: Honor and Glory
Status: in active service
General characteristics
Class and type: Ticonderoga-class cruiser
Displacement: Approx. 9,600 long tons (9,800t) full load
Length: 567feet (173m)
Beam: 55feet (16.8meters)
Draft: 34feet (10.2meters)
Propulsion:
4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbine engines, 80,000SHP (60,000KWS)
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
Sensors and processing systems:
AN/SPY-1A/B multi-function radar
AN/SPS-49 air search radar
AN/SPG-62 fire control radar
AN/SPS-73 surface search radar
AN/SPQ-9 gun fire control radar
AN/SLQ-32 Electronic Warfare Suite
AN/SQQ-89(V)1/3 - A(V)15 Sonar suite, consisting of:
AN/SQS-53B/C/D active sonar
AN/SQR-19 TACTAS, AN/SQR-19B ITASS, & MFTA passive sonar
AN/SQQ-28 light airborne multi-purpose system
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 12.75-in (324mm) triple torpedo tubes for lightweight torpedoes
Aircraft carried: 2 × Sikorsky SH-60B or MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters.