USS MONTEREY is the 15thTICONDEROGA class guided missile cruiser and the fourth ship in the Navy to bear the name.
Awarded: November 28, 1984
Keel laid: August 19, 1987
Launched: October 23, 1988
Commissioned: June 16, 1990
Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine
Propulsion system: four General Electric LM2500 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: approximately 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 torpedos, Harpoon missile launchers, two Mk 45 5-inch/54 caliber lightweight guns, two Phalanx CIWS, two Mk 38 Mod 2 25 mm machine gun systems
Homeport: Norfolk, VA
Crew: 33 Officers, 27 Chief Petty Officers and approximately 340 Enlisted