Military Product Description
This CG-52 USS Bunker Hill Patch Military Insignia Navy Cruiser measures 5 inches and is new.
USS BUNKER HILL is the first ship in the TICONDEROGA class equipped with the Vertical Launching System (VLS). The cruiser is named after the Battle of Bunker Hill which took place on June 17, 1775.
General Characteristics: Keel Laid: 1984
Launched: March 11, 1985
Commissioned: September 20, 1986
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding, West Bank, Pascagoula, Miss.
Propulsion system: four General Electric LM 2500 gas turbine engines
Propellers: two
Blades on each Propeller: five
Length: 567 feet (173 meters)
Beam: 55 feet (16.8 meters)
Draft: 34 feet (10.2 meters)
Displacement: approx. 9,600 tons full load
Speed: 30+ knots
Cost: about $1 billion
Aircraft: two SH-60 Sea Hawk (LAMPS 3)
Armament: Mk 41 VLS for Standard missiles, Tomahawk, ASROC; Mk 46 torpedoes, Harpoon missile launchers, two Mk 45 5-inch/54 caliber lightweight guns, two Phalanx CIWS
Homeport: San Diego, Calif.
Crew: 33 Officers, 27 Chief Petty Officers and approx. 324 Enlisted