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
More information on USS Guam from the United States Navy.
Guam was disposed of as a target off the US east coast on 16 October 2001.
