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USS TICONDEROGA (DDG/CG 47)


       

Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - Tango - India - Charlie

CLASS - TICONDEROGA
Displacement 9,589 (FL) Tons, Dimensions, 565' 10" (oa) x 55' x 31' 6" (Max)
Armament 2 x 5"/54RF, 2 Twin Missile Launchers, (88 Missiles) 8 Harpoon SSM 4x2,
2 x 20mm Phalanx CIWS, 2 x 25mm Bushmaster mg. 6 x12.75" TT. 2 LAMPS Helos.
Machinery, 80,000 SHP; G.E. Gas Turbines, 2 screws
Speed, 30+ Knots, Crew 370.

Operational and Building Data
Awarded to Ingalls Shipbuilding 22 SEP 1978
Reclassified CG on 01 JAN 1980
Keel laid on 27 JAN 1980 at Ingalls Shipbuilding, West Bank, Pascagoula, MS
Launched 25 APR 1981
Commissioned 22 JAN 1983
Fire in the Aft Main Engine Exhaust Uptake 8 SEP 1984
Decommissioned 30 SEP 2004
Stricken 30 SEP 2004
Fate: Scrapped in 2021, International Shipbreaking, Brownsville, TX


Patch image contributed by Mike Smolinski

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Joint Meritorious Unit Award
Second Row -
Navy Unit Commendation (6) - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation (5) - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (3)
Third Row - Navy Expeditionary Service Medal - National Defense Service Medal (2) - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal(4)
Fourth Row - Southwest Asia Service Medal (1) - Armed Forces Service Medal (2) - Sea Service Deployment Ribbon (4)
Fifth Row - Coast Guard Special Operations Ribbon (2) - NATO Medal - Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait)


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Ticonderoga
04014726
225k Under construction at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, MS. Robert M. Cieri
Ticonderoga
04014727
183k Preparing for launch at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, MS. Robert M. Cieri
Ticonderoga
04014732
1.5m Historical Data Plaque for the Ticonderoga. USN
Ticonderoga
04014728
173k Launching, 24 April 1981, at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, MS. Robert M. Cieri
Ticonderoga
04014736
326k

First Lady Nancy Reagan christening Ticonderoga CG 47.

Ingalls photo

Dale Hargrave
Ticonderoga
04014729
210m The First Lady, Nancy Reagan, christening the ship. Robert M. Cieri
Ticonderoga
04014739
85k Taken right after the christening by Nancy Reagan. Dale Hargrave
Ticonderoga
04014737
318k Ticonderoga (CG 47) getting a water salute after her christening. Dale Hargrave
Ticonderoga
04014719
366k

Port bow view while on Builders Sea Trials in the Gulf of Mexico, 7 May 1982.

Photo by Litton Shipbuilding Co.

Robert M. Cieri
Ticonderoga
04014720
416k

Starboard bow view while on Builders Sea Trials in the Gulf of Mexico, 7 May 1982.

Photo by Litton Shipbuilding Co.

Robert M. Cieri
Ticonderoga
04014725
1m Aerial port bow view while on Builders Sea Trials in the Gulf of Mexico, 7 May 1982.

Photo by Litton Shipbuilding Co.
Robert M. Cieri
Ticonderoga
04014713
596k Commissioning booklet, 22 January 1983 Robert M. Cieri
Ticonderoga
04014724
427k

CAPT Roland G. Guilbault, commanding officer of the first Aegis guided missile cruiser USS Ticonderoga (CG 47), stands on the pier after commissioning ceremonies at Ingalls Shipbuilding, 22 January 1983.

Image from the National Archives

Bill Gonyo
Ticonderoga 62k Bows on view. USN
Ticonderoga 37k Port bow view, being floated off a floating drydock at Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, MS. John Hummel
Ticonderoga 38k Port bow view, being floated off a floating drydock at Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, MS. John Hummel
Ticonderoga 25k Starboard bow view, underway, date and location unknown. From the collection of Atlantic Fleet Sales. Chester O. Morris
Ticonderoga
04014721
77k

RIM-66 Standard MR/SM-2 missiles on a Mark 26 launcher, prior to being fired from the Aegis guided missile cruiser USS Ticonderoga (CG 47) during tests near the Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training Facility, Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico. Photo taken by Don Muhm. (note that someone has left a bucket next to the launcher which will soon be blown over the side by the blast from the missile)

DVIC photo #DN-SC-84-10094

Bill Gonyo
Ticonderoga
04014722
109k

8 October 1983 - A bow view of the destroyer USS Spruance (DD 963), left, and the guided-missile cruiser USS Ticonderoga (CG 47) moored at the destroyer and submarine piers, Naval Operating Base Norfolk. Although the superstructures are different, these ships use the same basic hull and propulsion plant. The destroyer tender USS Shenandoah (AD 44) appears in the background.

U.S. Navy Photo #DN-ST-85-11657 by Don S. Montgomery.

Robert M. Cieri
Ticonderoga
04014733
1.1m   USN
Ticonderoga 243k In 1984, USS Ticonderoga(CG 47) cruises off the coast of Beirut, Lebanon in support of Marines operating as part of a multinational peacekeeping force, marking the first deployment of an Aegis warship. The United States mission in Beirut suffered a severe blow when a terrorist bombing destroyed the Marine barracks. Ticonderoga steamed into harm's way and provided U.S. commanders with capabilities not found on any other single ship in the nation's arsenal. (JCCC) Bill Gonyo/NavSea
Ticonderoga 30k Starboard bow, off the Virginia Capes. July 1985. "© Atlantic Fleet Sales/Nobe Smith
Ticonderoga
04014715
484k Welcome Aboard booklet, Circa 1986. Robert M. Cieri
Ticonderoga
04014717
404k Port side view while firing an SM-2 MR missile in 1986. Robert M. Cieri
Ticonderoga
04014731
970k

Preparing to transfer missiles to a Combat Support Ship.

U.S. Navy Photo #330-CFD-DN-ST-88-09170 by PH2 Chris Holmes

USN
Ticonderoga
04014718
410k Port side view while heading to New York City for Fleet Week, 28 April 1989. Robert M. Cieri
CV-59 Forrestal
NS0259an
131k

USS Forrestal (CV 59) and Battle Group, 28 April 1989, en route to New York City for Fleet Week '89. Ships accompanying Forrestal can be identified as (clockwise from extreme left): USS McCloy (FF 1038), USS Fairfax County (LST 1193), USS Klakring (FFG 42), USS W.S. Sims (FF 1059) or USS Pharris (FF 1094), USS Ticonderoga (CG 47), USS Hayler (DD 997), W.S. Sims or Pharris, and USS Macdonough (DDG 39).

Ken Killmeyer, USS Forrestal Association historian
Hayler
0599733
130k

3 May 1989 - A port bow view of the guided-missile cruiser USS Ticonderoga (CG 47) and the destroyer USS Hayler (DD 997) moored to the newly constructed Pier 1 on Staten Island during New York City Navy Fleet Week activities.

U. S. Navy Photo #DN-SC-90-09343 by PHC Ed Bailey.

Robert M. Cieri
Ticonderoga
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4m

USS Ticonderoga (CG 47) transiting the Suez Canal enroute to the Mediterranean Sea, following a deployment in support of Operation Desert Shield, 22 August 1990.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command. Catalog #: NH 106516-KN taken by PH3 Frank A. Marquart.

USNHC
Ticonderoga 37k This picture was taken in 1990 somewhere in the Atlantic near Bermuda. I shot this during a VERTREP (vertical replenishment) with her. We were transferring COMDESRON 32 and staff © Demetrius J. C. Carter,
SM1 USN
Ticonderoga
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1.4m

Gunner's Mate (Missiles) 2nd Class Scott Purcell manning the Main Control Console (MCC) within the Integrated Control Station (ICS) for the forward Mark 26 missile launcher aboard the guided missile cruiser USS Ticonderoga (CG 47) as the vessel is underway during maritime interdiction operations.

Photographer's Name: PH2 Charles Stover Location: unknown Date Shot: 12/13/1991 Date Posted: unknown VIRIN: DN-SC-92-05973

Wikipedia
Ticonderoga
04014714
173k Change of Command booklet, 30 June 1993. Robert M. Cieri
Laboon
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163k

NORFOLK, VA, 1 April 1996 - A port bow view of the guided-missile cruiser USS Ticonderoga (CG 47) and the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Laboon (DDG 58), nested together at Norfolk Naval Operating Base. This view gives a side-by-side comparison of the two Aegis classes of warships.

U.S. Navy photo #DN-SC-97-00787 by: Don S. Montgomery, USN (Ret).

Robert M. Cieri
Ticonderoga 282k

12 December 2000 - The guided missile cruiser USS Ticonderoga (CG 47) gets underway from Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., for a scheduled deployment. .

U.S. Navy photo #001212-N-1012K-501 by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class J.B. Keefer.

U.S. Navy
Ticonderoga
04014716
347k Welcome Aboard booklet, circa 2001. Robert M. Cieri
Carney
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132k

Atlantic Ocean, 18 January 2002 - (from lead, in foreground) USS Underwood (FFG 36), USS Ticonderoga (CG 47), USS Carney (DDG 64), USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81), and USS Taylor (FFG 50) steam in a "Ships Parade" formation during Joint Task Force Exercise (JTFEX) 2002.

U.S. Navy Photo #020118-N-6153P-001 by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Phil Pruitt.

Robert M. Cieri
Ticonderoga 57k The official invitation to the Decommissioning Ceremony for USS Ticonderoga. Chet Morris
Ticonderoga 37k Commemorative postmark for the Decommissioning of the Ticonderoga. Jack Treutle
Ticonderoga 57k

Ex-Ticonderoga (CG 47) is towed out of Naval Station Pascagoula immediately following the ship's decommissioning ceremony. Ticonderoga was the fifth ship to bear the name and spent the past eight years homeported at Naval Station Pascagoula. The ship will be towed to the Inactive Ships Maintenance Facility in Philadelphia, Pa., where a final decision on the eventual disposition of the ship will be made.

U.S. Navy Photo by Stacey Byington.

Bernard A. Cardali LST # 308 WWII Veteran
Ticonderoga 119k Ex-Ticonderoga (CG 47), moored outboard of ex-Thorn (DD 988) at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Philadelphia, PA in DEC 2004. John Hummel
Ticonderoga 107k Ex-Ticonderoga (CG 47), moored outboard of ex-Thorn (DD 988) at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Philadelphia, PA in DEC 2004. John Hummel
Ticonderoga
04014741
570k The ex-Ticonderoga (CG 47) at the Philadelphia Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility in January 2008. The ex-Thorn (DD 988) is probably outboard of her. bigbird78
Ticonderoga
04014723
194k Ex-Ticonderoga (CG 47), ex-Mobile (LKA 115), ex-El Paso (LKA 117), ex-Charleston (LKA 113) moored at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility in Philadelphia. Ron Reeves
Ticonderoga
04014730
3m Ex-Yorktown, ex-Ticonderoga, and ex-Thomas S. Gates moored at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility in Philadelphia. John Hummel
Ticonderoga
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1.2m From Right to Left, ex- Yorktown, ex-Ticonderoga, ex-Charles F. Adams, and ex-Boulder at Wharf "N", Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Philadelphia, PA, 13 Feb 2018. Joe LaPenna
Ticonderoga
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522k From Right to Left, ex- Yorktown, ex-Ticonderoga, ex-Charles F. Adams, Unknown LKA, and ex-Boulder at Wharf "N", Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Philadelphia, PA, 13 Feb 2018. Joe LaPenna
Ticonderoga
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349k

ex-USS Ticonderoga (CG -47) being towed by tug Miss Rui passing the jetties, South Padre Island, TX. on her way to the breakers; 23 September /2020.

Photo credit Shaw, Museum Ships Group.

Nick Tiberio

Commanding Officers
Name/Rank Class Final Rank Dates
Guilbault, Roland George, CAPT   RADM 01/22/1983 - 01/19/1985
Walsh, Raymond Michael, CAPT   RADM 01/19/1985 - 03/07/1987
Arrison III, James Matthew, CAPT     03/07/1987 - 08/04/1989
Foote, Morris Cooper, CDR 1966   08/04/1989 - 07/21/1991
Messina, Edward F., CAPT     07/21/1991 - 06/30/1993
Storm, Gary Alan, CAPT 1968   06/30/1993 - 06/08/1995
Bush, Charles Thomas, CDR   RADM 06/08/1995 - 12/03/1996
Yoshihara, David Gregg, CDR 1979   12/03/1996 - 06/30/1998
Dietrich, King Hastings, CDR     06/30/1998 - 06/09/2000
Sears II, Glen Richard, CDR 1982   06/09/2000 - 01/30/2002
Zeiders III, Glenn Wilson, CDR     01/30/2002 - 09/30/2004

(Courtesy of Wolfgang Hechler & Ron Reeves - Photos courtesy of Bill Gonyo)


USS TICONDEROGA (DDG/CG 47) History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry on the U.S. Navy Historical Center website.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information

Contact Name: Jonathan D. Kettl, Sr. ISCM(SW), USN (Ret.)
Address:
3001 Magnolia Gln Apt 307, Fredericksburg, VA 22401
Phone: (540) 226-1269
E-mail: President@Ticovets.org


Note About Contacts.

The contact listed, Was the contact at the time for this ship when located. If another person now is the contact, E-mail me and I will update this entry. These contacts are compiled from various sources over a long period of time and may or may not be correct. Every effort has been made to list the newest contact if more than one contact was found.


Additional Resources
USS Ticonderoga Veterans website.
Hazegray & Underway Cruiser Pages By Andrew Toppan.

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