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The Ticonderoga class was originally ordered as guided-missile destroyers, with the designation DDG-47. Under Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Elmo Zumwalt's "high-low mix", the Ticonderogas were intended to be lower-cost platforms for the new Aegis Combat System by mounting the system on a hull based on that of the Spruance-class destroyer.
Pages in category "Ticonderoga-class cruisers" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Ticonderoga class, a variant of the US Navy Essex-class aircraft carrier; Ticonderoga-class cruiser; Ticonderoga; Ticonderoga, a museum ship belonging to the Shelburne Museum, formerly operated on Lake Champlain; Ticonderoga II, formerly of the Lake George Steamboat Company; Ticonderoga, a 72-foot ketch, built in 1936
The contract to build DDG-47 Ticonderoga was awarded to Ingalls Shipbuilding on 22 September 1978. The ship's design was based on that of the Spruance-class destroyer.While sharing the same hull, the Ticonderoga-class design featured two large deckhouses and the Aegis combat system that together increased the ship's displacement from the Spruance-class baseline of 6,900 tons to 9,600 tons.
The Ticonderoga-class cruisers are equipped with the Aegis Combat System and Bunker Hill was the first of the class to be equipped with the Mark 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS) in place of the previous ships' twin-arm Mark 26 missile launchers, which greatly improved the flexibility and firepower of the ships by allowing them to fire BGM-109 ...
United States · Ticonderoga · New York (State) · Aerial Views · Ticonderoga (N.Y.) Licensing This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art.
Ticonderoga is a museum ship and one of just two [a] remaining sidewheel passenger steamers with an intact walking beam engine of the type that powered countless thousands of American freight and passenger vessels on America's bays, lakes and rivers for more than a century.
Ticonderoga was launched in 1849 at Williamsburg, New York (United States). She was infamous for her "fever ship" voyage in 1852 from Liverpool (England) to Port Phillip, Victoria (Australia) carrying 795 passengers, arriving on 3 November 1852. It was a double-decker ship, overcrowded, and with more than her recommended load of 630. Many ...