LCC-20 Mount Whitney

Country:  United States

Class, [Type]: Blue Ridge, [LCC].

Builder: Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A.

Launch date: 08 January 1970.

Commission date: 16 January 1971.

Displacement ( tons ): 12.815 light, 19.729 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 193,98 x 32,9 x 8,84

Main machinery: 2 x Foster Wheeler boilers, 1 x General Electric steam turbine ( 22.000 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 21,5.

Range ( miles ): 13.000 at 16 knots.

Complement: 162 ( 12 officers ) + 150 MSC.

Guns: 2 x 25mm/75 Mk38 Bushmaster, 2 x 20mm Mk 15 Phalanx CIWS; 4 x 12,7mm.

Military lift: 2.800 tons of fuel, 123.510 gallons of aviation fuel. Carries 3 x LCP, 2 x LCVP and 1 x personnel launch.

Radar: Surface search: 1 x Lockheed Martin SPS-67(V)1, 1 x SPS-73(V)12; Fire control: 2 x Mk 91 (CIWS).

Countermeasures: Decoys: 4 x Mk 36 SRBOC, SLQ-25A Nixie towed acoustic torpedo decoy; ESM/ECM: Raytheon SLQ-32(V)3 active/passive.

Helicopter: no hangar, but has a landing pad at stern.

Callsign: NOGB ()

Comment: ex-AGC 20. Sixth Fleet Flagship.

Homeport: Gaeta.

Unit: Sixth Fleet.

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