USS GETTYSBURG
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Keel Laid: August 17, 1988
Christened: July 22, 1989
Commissioned: June 22, 1991

Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
Propulsion system: 4 General Electric LM-2500 Gas 
Turbine Engines
Length, overall: 567 feet
Beam: 55 feet 
Draft: 33 feet 
Displacement: Full Displacement: 9957 tons
Speed: 30+ knots
Crew: 24 Officers 340 Enlisted
Aircraft: two SH-60 Sea Hawk (LAMPS MK III) helicopters
Armament: 
 - 2 MK-45 MOD 4 5"/54 caliber lightweight gun 
 - 2 MK-41 VML for Standard Missiles, Anti-Submarine 
Rocket (ASROC) and Tomahawk ASM/LAM (127 Cells)
 - 2 Harpoon Missile Quad-Canister Launchers (MK-141)
 - 2 MK 32 MOD 14 Torpedo Tubes - 6 MK-46 torpedoes
 - 2 MK 15 MOD 25 Close-in-Weapons Systems (CIWS)
 - 2 MK-38 MOD 2 25mm Machine Gun System (MGS)
 - 1 MK 36 MOD 2 Super Rapid-Blooming Off-Board Chaff System
 - 2 50-Caliber Machine Guns 
Homeport: Norfolk, VA.