Kieler Förde inbound for BALTOPS 2011 2011-06-03
US Blue Ridge Class Command ship / flagship of the United States
Navy's Sixth Fleet.
*1971 Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company
Commissioned: 16 January 1971
Displacement: 18,400 tons full load
Length: 194.00m Beam: 32.90m Draft: 9.06m full load
Propulsion: Two boilers, one geared turbine
Capacity: 930 Complement: 170 officers and enlisted men; and 155 Military Sealift Command civilian sailors
Armament: Two Phalanx CIWS, Two 25 mm Bushmaster cannons, Four .50 cal.machine guns,Mark 36 SRBOC chaff rockets
Aircraft carried: One helicopter, SH-60 Knight
