U.S.S. Chicago
CG-11
1968
(Optatus OPT-S-09a)
- Class: Albany - 3 guided missile cruisers of 1958-1959
- Displacement: 18,950 tons
- Dimensions: 674' x 71' x 33'6"
- Machinery: 4 boilers, 4 geared trubines; 120,000 shp; 4 screws
- Speed: 30.4 knots
- Missiles: 2 twin TALOS launchers (52 missiles each), 2 twin TARTAR launchers (42 missiles each)
- Guns: 2 5"/38 DP (2x1)
- ASW weapons: 1 ASROC; 6-12.75" TT (2x3)
- Complement: 86+1,186
- Builder: Philadelphia Navy Yard
- Keel Laid: 28 Jul 1943
- Launched: 20 Aug 1944
- Commissioned: 1 Jan 1945 / 2 May 1964
- Decommissioned: 6 Jun 1947 / 1 Mar 1980
- Notes: Commissioned as CA-136, a heavy cruiser of the Baltimore class with 9-8"/55 and 12-5"/38 guns. She supported the final raids on Japan in Jul-Aug 1945, and took part in shore bombardments of the Japanese mainland. Reclassified CG-11 on 1 Nov 1958 and towed to San Francisco Naval Shipyard for conversion to missile cruiser. Multiple deployments to Gulf of Tonkin from 1966-72 serving as PIRAZ (positivie identification and radar advisory zone) ship during the mining of Haiphong harbor; when MiGs threatened the low-flying mining aircraft, she shot down one at 48nm with a Talos missile and the others fled.
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