USS Kitty Hawk & USS Cowpens & HMAS Success

USS KITTY HAWK was the lead ship of the Navy’s second class of "super carriers" and the second ship in the Navy to bear the name.

Since August 1998, KITTY HAWK was homeported in Yokosuka, Japan, where she relieved the USS INDEPENDENCE (CV 62) as the only forward deployed aircraft carrier in the Navy. The KITTY HAWK left Japan for the last time in mid-2008. After participation in RIMPAC 2008, the carrier continued to San Diego, Calif., to meet the USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) for turn-over. The GEORGE WASHINGTON replaced the KITTY HAWK in Japan.

Decommissioned on May 12, 2009, the KITTY HAWK is now laid up at Bremerton, Wash.

General Characteristics: Keel Laid: December 27, 1956
Launched: May 21, 1960
Commissioned: April 29, 1961
Decommissioned: May 12, 2009
Builder: New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, NJ
Propulsion system: eight Steam Boilers
Main Engines: four Steam Turbine Engines
Propellers: four
Blades on each Propeller: five
Aircraft elevators: four
Catapults: four
Arresting gear cables: four
Length, overall: 1046,5 feet (319 meters)
Flight Deck Width: 252 feet (76.8 meters)
Area of flight deck: about 4,5 acres
Beam: 129,6 feet (39.5 meters)
Draft: 35,8 feet (10.9 meters)
Displacement: approx. 82,200 tons full load
Speed: 30+ knots
Cost: about $400 million (1961)
Planes: approx. 85
Crew: Ship: 2,900 Air Wing: 2,480
Armament: two Mk 29 NATO Sea Sparrow launchers, two 20mm Phalanx CIWS Mk 15, two Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Systems


http://www.navysite.de/cvn/cv63.htm


USS COWPENS is the 17th TICONDEROGA class guided missile cruiser and the fifth ship in that class built by Bath Iron Works in Maine. In January 2013, the COWPENS was relieved as a forward deployed naval unit by her sistership ANTIETAM (CG 54). During the hull swap, the crew of the COWPENS took over the ANTIETAM and the ANTIETAM crew sailed the COWPENS back to San Diego, Calif. At the moment, the COWPENS is laid up at San Diego, Calif., as part of the Navy's Cruiser Phased Modernization Program. The ship will later undergo modernization and return to service by 2021, replacing an older sistership. The program follows a 2-4-6 plan meaning that each year no more than two cruisers will be placed in phased modernization; no cruiser will remain in phased modernization for more than 4 years; and no more than six cruisers may be in phased modernization at the same time. During the lay up, the ship is maintained by a small 45-sailor crew.

General Characteristics: Keel Laid: 1987
Launched: March 11, 1989
Commissioned: March 9, 1991
Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
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: two 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, two Mk 38 Mod 2 25mm machine gun systems
Homeport: San Diego, Calif.
Crew: 33 Officers, 27 Chief Petty Officers and approx. 340 Enlisted


http://www.navysite.de/cg/cg63.html


HMAS Success (OR 304) is a Durance-class multi-product replenishment oiler serving in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built at Cockatoo Island Dockyard in Sydney, Australia, during the 1980s, she is the only ship of the class to be constructed outside France, and the only one to not originally serve in the Marine Nationale (French Navy).

Australia

Builder: Cockatoo Island Dockyard
Laid down: 9 August 1980
Launched: 3 March 1984
Commissioned: 23 April 1986
Homeport: Fleet Base East, Sydney
Motto: "Strive to Win"
Nickname(s): Battle Tanker
Honours and
awards:

• Battle honours:
• Kuwait 1991
• East Timor 1999

Status: Active as of 2016


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_Success_(OR_304)