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History
USS Mobile BayUnited States
NameMobile Bay
NamesakeBattle of Mobile Bay
Ordered15 January 1982
BuilderIngalls Shipbuilding
Laid down6 June 1984
Launched22 August 1985
Commissioned21 February 1987
Decommissioned10 August 2023
HomeportNB Kitsap-Bremerton
Identification
  • MMSI number: 368785000
  • Call sign: NMOB
  • Hull number: CG-53
MottoFull Speed Ahead
StatusStricken from the Naval Registry; final disposition pending as of August 2023
Badge
General characteristics
Class and typeTiconderoga-class cruiser
DisplacementApprox. 9,600 long tons (9,800 t) full load
Length567 feet (173 m)
Beam55 feet (16.8 meters)
Draft34 feet (10.2 meters)
Propulsion
  • 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbine engines
  • 2 × controllable-reversible pitch propellers
  • 2 × rudders
Speed32.5 knots (60 km/h; 37.4 mph)
Complement30 officers and 300 enlisted
Sensors and
processing systems
  • AN/SPY-1A/B multi-function radar
  • AN/SPS-49 air search radar (Removed on some ships)
  • AN/SPG-62 fire control radar
  • AN/SPS-73 surface search radar
  • AN/SPQ-9 gun fire control radar
  • 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 × 5 in (127 mm)/62 caliber Mark 45 Mod 4 lightweight gun
  • 2 × Mk 38 25 mm Machine Gun Systems
  • 2–4 × .50 in (12.7 mm) cal. machine gun
  • 2 × Phalanx CIWS Block 1B
  • 2 × Mk 32 12.75 in (324 mm) triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried2 × MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS Mk III helicopters.

USS Mobile Bay (CG-53) was a Ticonderoga class guided-missile cruiser that served in the United States Navy from 1987 to 2023. She is named for the naval Battle of Mobile Bay during the American Civil War in 1864.

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