<Table> USS Yorktown (CG - 48) <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> USS Yorktown underway on 1 September 1985, in the Caribbean . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> History </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> United States </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Name: </Td> <Td> Yorktown </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Operator: </Td> <Td> United States Navy </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Ordered: </Td> <Td> 28 April 1980 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Builder: </Td> <Td> Ingalls Shipbuilding </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Laid down: </Td> <Td> 19 October 1981 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Launched: </Td> <Td> 17 January 1983 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Sponsored by: </Td> <Td> Mrs. Mary Mathews </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Commissioned: </Td> <Td> 4 July 1984 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Decommissioned: </Td> <Td> 10 December 2004 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Struck: </Td> <Td> 10 December 2004 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Motto: </Td> <Td> "Victory is our tradition" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Status: </Td> <Td> Stricken, to be disposed of . In reserve at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Badge: </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> General characteristics </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Class and type: </Td> <Td> Ticonderoga - class cruiser </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Displacement: </Td> <Td> Approx . 9,600 long tons (9,800 t) full load </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Length: </Td> <Td> 567 feet (173 m) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Beam: </Td> <Td> 55 feet (16.8 meters) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Draft: </Td> <Td> 34 feet (10.2 meters) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Propulsion: </Td> <Td> <Ul> <Li> 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbine engines, 80,000 shaft horsepower (60,000 kW) </Li> <Li> 2 × controllable - reversible pitch propellers </Li> <Li> 2 × rudders </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Speed: </Td> <Td> 32.5 knots (60 km / h; 37.4 mph) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Complement: </Td> <Td> 33 officers, 27 Chief Petty Officers, and approx. 340 enlisted </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Sensors and processing systems: </Td> <Td> <Ul> <Li> AN / SPY - 1 A / B multi-function radar </Li> <Li> AN / SPS - 49 air search radar </Li> <Li> AN / SPG - 62 fire control radar </Li> <Li> AN / SPS - 73 surface search radar </Li> <Li> AN / SPQ - 9 gun fire control radar </Li> <Li> AN / SLQ - 32 Electronic Warfare Suite </Li> <Li> AN / SQQ - 89 (V) 1 / 3 - A (V) 15 Sonar suite, consisting of: </Li> <Li> <Ul> <Li> AN / SQS - 53B / C / D active sonar </Li> <Li> AN / SQR - 19 TACTAS, AN / SQR - 19B ITASS, & MFTA passive sonar </Li> <Li> AN / SQQ - 28 light airborne multi-purpose system </Li> </Ul> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Armament: </Td> <Td> <Ul> <Li> 2 × Mk 26 missile launchers </Li> <Li> 68 × RIM - 66 SM - 2, and 20 × RUR - 5 ASROC </Li> <Li> 8 × RGM - 84 Harpoon missiles </Li> <Li> 2 × Mark 45 5 in / 54 cal lightweight gun </Li> <Li> 2--4 × . 50 cal (12.7 mm) gun </Li> <Li> 2 × Phalanx CIWS </Li> <Li> 2 × Mk 32 12.75 in (324 mm) triple torpedo tubes </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Aircraft carried: </Td> <Td> 2 × Sikorsky SH - 60B or MH - 60R Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> USS Yorktown underway on 1 September 1985, in the Caribbean . </Td> </Tr>

Uss yorktown 1998 – ship’s propulsion system went down