Spacecraft Recovery
15 September 1966: Gemini 11
| General Characteristics: | Awarded: September 21, 1961 |
| Keel laid: November 15, 1962 | |
| Launched: August 22, 1964 | |
| Commissioned: January 16, 1965 | |
| Decommissioned: August 25, 1998 | |
| Builder: Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia, Penn. | |
| Propulsion system: Two boilers, one geared steam turbines, one shaft, 22,000 total shaft horsepower | |
| Propellers: one | |
| Length: 603, 65 feet (184 meters) | |
| Beam: 104 feet (31.7 meters) | |
| Draft: 25,9 feet (7.9 meters) | |
| Aircraft elevators: two | |
| Displacement: approx. 19,500 tons full load | |
| Speed: 23 knots | |
| Aircraft: 20 UH-46D Sea Knight Helicopters, 10 MH-53E Sea Stallion Helicopters, 3 UH-1 Helicopters, 3 AH-1 Helicopters but the actual mix depends upon mission | |
| Armament: two Phalanx CIWS, two Mk-25 Sea Sparrow Missile Launchers | |
| Crew: 80 officers, 638 enlisted, 1,750 Marine Detachment |