USS Thomas S. Gates
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The USS Thomas S. Gates (CG-51) was a flight-I Ticonderoga-class cruiser that was used by the United States Navy. The warship was named after Thomas S. Gates, Secretary of Defense in the last years of the Eisenhower Administration (1959–1961).
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USS Thomas S. Gates on 18 July 2005 | |
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Name | Thomas S. Gates |
Namesake | Thomas S. Gates |
Ordered | 20 May 1982 |
Builder | Bath Iron Works |
Laid down | 31 August 1984 |
Launched | 14 December 1985 |
Sponsored by | Anne Gates |
Acquired | 22 June 1987 |
Commissioned | 22 August 1987 |
Decommissioned | 16 December 2005 |
Stricken | 16 December 2005 |
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Motto | Defender of the Republic |
Fate | Scrapped, 2017 |
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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) |
Draught | 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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In a break from normal naming conventions for the Ticonderoga class cruisers, the Thomas S. Gates was originally the only vessel of the class to be named after a person; all of the other cruisers are named after notable events in American military history until 2023, when USS Chancellorsville was renamed USS Robert Smalls (CG-62).