USS Lake Champlain (CG-57)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Lake Champlain.
USS Lake Champlain (CG-57) is a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser in the United States Navy. She is the third US Naval ship to be named Lake Champlain, in honor of Battle of Lake Champlain, which took place during the War of 1812.
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Name | Lake Champlain |
Namesake | Battle of Lake Champlain |
Awarded | 16 December 1983 |
Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
Laid down | 3 March 1986 |
Launched | 3 April 1987 |
Acquired | 1 June 1988 |
Commissioned | 12 August 1988 |
Decommissioned | 1 September 2023[1] |
Homeport | NB Kitsap-Bremerton |
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Motto | Ingenuity Daring Discipline[2] |
Status | Out of service |
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Class and type | Ticonderoga-class cruiser |
Displacement | Approx. 9,600 long tons (9,800 t) full load |
Length | 567 feet (173 m) |
Beam | 55 feet (16.8 meters) |
Draft | 34 feet (10.2 meters) |
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Speed | 32.5 knots (60 km/h; 37.4 mph) |
Complement | 30 officers and 300 enlisted |
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Aircraft carried | 2 × MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS Mk III helicopters. |
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Lake Champlain was laid down 3 March 1986, at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, launched 3 April 1987, and commissioned 12 August 1988, at Intrepid Pier at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in New York City. She then steamed to her homeport of San Diego, via Cape Horn, South America, losing part of her hurricane bulwark in heavy seas.[3]