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USS Lake Erie (CG-70) is a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy, commissioned in 1993. She was named after the U.S. Navy's decisive victory in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. The cruiser was the first U.S. Navy ship to be commissioned in Hawaii. [5]
Lake Erie: CG-70 Bath Iron Works 6 March 1990 13 July 1991 10 May 1993 Proposed 2025 [15] San Diego, CA: In active service Cape St. George: CG-71 Ingalls Shipbuilding 19 November 1990 10 January 1992 12 June 1993 Proposed 2029 [17] San Diego, CA: In active service Vella Gulf: CG-72 Ingalls Shipbuilding 22 April 1991 13 June 1992 18 September 1993
USS Yorktown (CG-48) USS Lake Erie (CG-70) CG-43 to CG-46 skipped to allow redesignation of DDG-47 Ticonderoga without renumbering. Ticonderoga class with the Mark 26 missile launch system (DDG/CG-47) Ticonderoga (1983) – Gulf War: 1 battle star (DDG/CG-48) Yorktown (1984) [35] (CG-49) Vincennes (1985) (CG-50) Valley Forge (1986) – Gulf War ...
In 2008, an SM-3 fired from the cruiser USS Lake Erie destroyed a defunct satellite at an altitude of some 150 miles, demonstrating its ability to perform anti-satellite missions.
The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is the strike group's current flagship. Other units currently assigned to the group include the cruisers USS Lake Erie (CG-70) and USS Princeton (CG-59), and Destroyer Squadron 9. [7] Between 2006 and 2013, the group made four deployments to the U.S.
The commanding officer of USS Lake Erie (CG-70), Captain Scott Anhalt, applies gold paint to one of the ship's anchors. The Retention Excellence Award (previously known as the Golden Anchor Award) [ 1 ] is an award given by the United States Department of the Navy for sustaining superior levels of military retention.
USS Lake Erie: CG-70 Ticonderoga: Cruiser: 10 May 1993: San Diego, CA [124] Scheduled to be decommissioned 2025 [79] USS Lassen: DDG-82 Arleigh Burke: Destroyer: 21 April 2001: Mayport, FL [125] USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee: DDG-123 Arleigh Burke: Destroyer: 13 May 2023: San Diego, CA [126] USS Lewis B. Puller: ESB-3 Lewis B. Puller ...
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) is the group's current flagship. Other group units include Carrier Air Wing 11, the Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Lake Erie, and the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer's USS John S. McCain, USS Halsey (DDG-97), and the USS Daniel Inouye.