USS Chosin

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USS Chosin (CG-65)
History
United States
Name: USS Chosin
Namesake: Battle of Chosin Reservoir
Ordered: 8 January 1986
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding
Laid down: 22 July 1988
Launched: 1 September 1989
Commissioned: 12 January 1991
Homeport: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Motto: Invictus
Status: in active service, as of 2024
Badge: 150px
General characteristics
Class & type: Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser
Displacement: Approx. 9,600 long tons (9,800 t) full load
Length: 567 feet (173 m)
Beam: 55 feet (16.8 meters)
Draft: 34 feet (10.2 meters)
Propulsion:
  • 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbine engines, 80,000 shaft horsepower (60,000 kW)
  • 2 × controllable-reversible pitch propellers
  • 2 × rudders
Speed: 32.5 knots (60 km/h; 37.4 mph)
Complement: 33 officers, 27 Chief Petty Officers, and approx. 340 enlisted
Sensors and
processing systems:
Armament:
Aircraft carried: 2 × Sikorsky SH-60B or MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters.

USS Chosin (CG-65) is a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser serving in the United States Navy. She is named in honor of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir of the Korean War.[1] Commissioned in 1991, she is currently serving in the Pacific Fleet, based at Pearl Harbor. The cruiser has participated in Operation Southern Watch, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom.[2] She is the first ship of this name.

Operational history

File:USS Chosin (CG-65) at International Fleet Review 2013 Open Day.jpg
Chosin at International Fleet Review 2013 Open Day

In March 2003 Chosin was assigned to Cruiser-Destroyer Group One.[3]

In April 2008, Chosin failed[4] her Board of Inspection and Survey (InSurv) examination and was judged "unfit for sustained combat operations."[5][6] In Spring of 2008, Chosin had received replacement gun barrels for both of her 5-inch guns.[7]

On 6 November 2009 Chosin assumed the role as flagship for the counter-piracy task force Combined Task Force 151.[8] On 17 November 2009 Chosin rescued three stranded Yemeni fishermen in the Gulf of Aden. According to the fishermen, they were left stranded in the water after 12 suspected Somali pirates hijacked their vessel. The fishermen also said that the pirates gave them an ultimatum to either jump overboard with only a wooden plank as a flotation device or be killed. Chosin medical personnel treated the fishermen and gave them food and water. Once the fishermen were deemed to be medically stable, Chosin transferred the fishermen to a Yemen Navy vessel.[9]

In April 2013, Chosin passed its Board of Inspection and Survey (InSurv). On 30 April 2013 Chosin departed her home port of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH) for a scheduled Western Pacific deployment. While deployed, Chosin was scheduled to conduct theater security operations with partner nations while providing deterrence, promoting peace and security, preserving freedom of the seas and providing humanitarian assistance/disaster response.[10] In October 2013, the cruiser participated in the International Fleet Review 2013 in Sydney, Australia.[11]

In February 2014 Chosin dispatched supplies via helicopter to Royal Canadian Navy ship HMCS Protecteur after a severe engine room fire left her dead in the water about 630 km (390 mi) off the coast of Hawaii.[12] For providing assistance to Protecteur, the Canadian government awarded Chosin a Canadian Forces Unit Commendation.[13]

Gallery

  • USS Chosin (CG-65) at Barangaroo during the International Fleet Review 2013.jpg

    Chosin at Barangaroo during the International Fleet Review 2013.

  • USS Chosin (CG-65) Mark 41 Vertical Launching System.jpg

    Mark 41 Vertical Launching System.

  • USS Chosin (CG-65) Mk 32 torpedo tubes (2).jpg

    Mk 141 Missile Launchers.

  • USS Chosin (CG-65) Radar.jpg

    Radars.

  • USS Chosin (CG 65) alongside USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).jpg

    Chosin conducts plane guard duty for the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt.

  • USS Chosin 2006 060109-N-9643K-006.jpg

    Tugboats push the guided missile cruiser Chosin towards the pier in preparation for mooring at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

  • US Navy 060331-N-7293M-549 The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Chosin (CG 65) and the Russian Navy Udaloy-class destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov (DDGHM 543) sail in formation during a joint Russian-U.S. Navy exercise.jpg

    Chosin and the Russian Navy Udaloy-class destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov sail in formation during a joint Russian-U.S. Navy exercise.

  • A DC-130 Hercules drone control aircraft banks to the left while passing over the guided missile cruiser Chosin.

References

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