Ordered: 31 January 1975 Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company Laid down: 17 January 1977 Launched: 21 October 1978 Sponsored by: Mrs. Dale Bumpers Acquired: 29 September 1980 Commissioned: 18 October 1980 Decommissioned: 7 July 1998 Struck: 7 July 1998 Motto: "Defender of Oppurtuniity" Fate: Disposed of by the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program, completed on 1 November 1999 Displacement: 9,473 short tons Length: 178 m (585 feet) Beam: 19 m (63 feet) Draft: 9.3 m (30.5 feet) Speed: 30+ knots Range: Nuclear Complement: 473 officers and enlisted men AN/SPS-48 3-D air-search radar AN/SPS-49 2-D air-search radar AN/SPS-55 Surface-search radar AN/SPQ-9 Fire-control radar AN/SPG-51 Missile fire-control radar AN/SLQ-32 Mark 36 SRBOC passive chaff launchers Two Mk 26 surface-to-air-missile launchers for Standard Missiles SM-2MR surface-to-air-missiles, or as a sideline, ASROC missiles (held in magazines with a total of 68 missiles) Two Mk-141 Harpoon missile launchers Two armored box launchers fors:" Tomahawk missiles" Two triple mounts for Mk 46 torpedoes Two 5-inch, 54 calibre Mk 45 lightweight naval guns Two Phalanx CIWS for self-defense against antiship missiles Armor: none aircraft carried: none
Ordered: 31 January 1975 Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company Laid down: 17 January 1977 Launched: 21 October 1978 Sponsored by: Mrs. Dale Bumpers Acquired: 29 September 1980 Commissioned: 18 October 1980 Decommissioned: 7 July 1998 Struck: 7 July 1998 Motto: "Defender of Oppurtuniity" Fate: Disposed of by the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program, completed on 1 November 1999 Displacement: 9,473 short tons Length: 178 m (585 feet) Beam: 19 m (63 feet) Draft: 9.3 m (30.5 feet) Speed: 30+ knots Range: Nuclear Complement: 473 officers and enlisted men AN/SPS-48 3-D air-search radar AN/SPS-49 2-D air-search radar AN/SPS-55 Surface-search radar AN/SPQ-9 Fire-control radar AN/SPG-51 Missile fire-control radar AN/SLQ-32 Mark 36 SRBOC passive chaff launchers Two Mk 26 surface-to-air-missile launchers for Standard Missiles SM-2MR surface-to-air-missiles, or as a sideline, ASROC missiles (held in magazines with a total of 68 missiles) Two Mk-141 Harpoon missile launchers Two armored box launchers fors:" Tomahawk missiles" Two triple mounts for Mk 46 torpedoes Two 5-inch, 54 calibre Mk 45 lightweight naval guns Two Phalanx CIWS for self-defense against antiship missiles Armor: none aircraft carried: none
