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USS George Washington CVN 73
Fact Sheet Page 1
Homeport: Naval Station
Norfolk
Status: Active in service as of 2005.
Laid down:
25 August 1986
Launched:
21 July 1990
Commissioned:
4 July 1992
Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding Co.,
Newport News
;
Va.
Motto: Spirit of Freedom
Nickname: GW
Aircraft elevators: four
Catapults: four
Arresting gear cables: four
Flight Deck Width: 257 feet (78.34 meters)
Area of flight deck: about 4.5 acres
Beam: 134 feet (40.84 meters)
Draft: 38.4 feet (11.7 meters)
Displacement: 101,000–104,000 tons full load
Speed: 30+ knots
Planes: approx. 85
Crew: Ship: approx. 3,200 Air Wing: 2,480
Length: Overall: 1,092 ft (333 m)
Length at Waterline: 1,040 ft (317 m)
Limit: 41 ft (12.5 m)
Propulsion and power: 2 × Westinghouse A4W nuclear reactors, 4 × steam turbines, 4 × shafts
.................................260,000 shp (194 MW)
Propellers: four
Blades on each Propeller: five
Range: Essentially unlimited
Sensors and processing systems:
.....SPS-48E 3-D air search radar
. SPS-49(V)5 2-D air search radar
Mk 23 target acquisition radar
2 × SPN-46 air traffic control radars
SPN-43B air traffic control radar
SPN-44 landing aid radars
3 × Mk 91 NSSM guidance systems
3 × Mk 95 radars
Electronic warfare and decoys: SLQ-32(V)4 jamming/deception suite
..Mk36 SRBOC decoy RL
..SLQ-25A Nixie torpedo countermeasures
Armament: .4 × Phalanx CIWS
Armor: Unknown
Aircraft: 90 fixed wing and helicopters
USS George Washington (CVN 73) is the sixth ship in the Nimitz class of nuclear-powered super carriers, and the third United States Navy warship to be named after George Washington, first President of the
United States.
She was built by Newport News Shipbuilding. The keel was laid on
25 August 1986
and the ship was commissioned on
4 July 1992.
Two nuclear reactors are used for propulsion (the ship is capable of steaming more than one million miles before refueling) turning 4 five-bladed screws that weigh 66,220 pounds (30 t) each driving the ship at speeds over 30 knots (56 km/h).
George Washington (commonly known as GW) is 1,094 ft (333 m) long, 257 ft (78 m) wide and is as high as a twenty-four-story building, at 244 feet (74 m). The super carrier can accommodate approximately 90 aircraft and has a flight deck 4.5 acres (18,000 m²) in size, using four elevators that are 3,880 ft² (360 m²) each to move planes between the flight deck and the hangar bay. With a combat load, GW displaces almost 104,000 tons and carries over 6,000 crewmembers. She can distill 400,000
U.S.
gallons (1,500 m³) of water and serves 18,000 meals per day. There are over 2,500 compartments on board requiring 2,520 tons (2.1 MW) of air conditioning capacity (enough to cool over 2,000 homes). The warship uses two anchors that weigh 30 tons each, with each link of the anchor chain weighing 360 pounds (160 kg). She is equipped with 4 Phalanx 20mm Close In Weapon System Mounts and 3 Sea Sparrow SAM launchers.
As of 2004, George Washington is home ported at NS Norfolk, Virginia.
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