USS Port Royal (CG-73)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Port Royal.
USS Port Royal (CG-73) was a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser that served in the United States Navy. She was commissioned on 9 July 1994, as the 27th and final ship of the class. Port Royal was named in honor of the two naval battles of Port Royal Sound, South Carolina, one during the American Revolutionary War, the other during the American Civil War. She was decommissioned on 29 September 2022. The ship is the second to bear the name, with the first being a steam-powered, side-wheel gunboat, from New York City, in commission from 1862 to 1866.[1]
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USS Port Royal underway in August 2007 | |
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Name | Port Royal |
Namesake | Battle of Port Royal |
Ordered | 25 February 1988 |
Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
Laid down | 18 October 1991 |
Launched | 20 November 1992 |
Acquired | 25 April 1994 |
Commissioned | 9 July 1994 |
Decommissioned | 29 September 2022 |
Stricken | 30 September 2022 |
Homeport | Pearl Harbor |
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Motto | The Will to Win |
Status | Stricken from the Naval Registry; final disposition pending as of October 2022 |
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Class and type | Ticonderoga-class cruiser |
Displacement | Approx. 9,600 long tons (9,800 t) full load |
Length | 567 feet (173 m) |
Beam | 55 feet (16.8 meters) |
Draft | 34 feet (10.2 meters) |
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Speed | 32.5 knots (60 km/h; 37.4 mph) |
Complement | 30 officers and 300 enlisted |
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Aircraft carried | 2 × MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS Mk III helicopters. |
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