USS Yorktown (CG-48)
USS Yorktown on 24 February 2002
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Name | Yorktown |
Namesake | Battle of Yorktown |
Ordered | 28 April 1980 |
Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
Laid down | 19 October 1981 |
Launched | 17 January 1983 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Mary Mathews |
Commissioned | 4 July 1984 |
Decommissioned | 10 December 2004 |
Stricken | 10 December 2004 |
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Motto | Victory is our tradition |
Status | Undergoing scrapping |
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Class and type | Ticonderoga-class 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) |
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Speed | 32.5 knots (60 km/h; 37.4 mph) |
Complement | 30 officers and 300 enlisted |
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Armament |
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Aircraft carried | 2 × MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS Mk III helicopters. |
USS Yorktown (DDG-48/CG-48) was a
History
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Yorktown was launched 17 January 1983 and was
Yorktown received the Atlantic Fleet's "Top Gun" award for outstanding
In 1991, Yorktown was awarded the coveted "Old Crow's" award for
Yorktown conducted her third and fourth Mediterranean deployments as the world watched the end of the Cold War and the coalition victory in
In 1993, Yorktown was awarded the Commander, Naval Surface Forces, Atlantic Ship Safety Award for a superior safety record. Yorktown has also been awarded two Navy Unit Commendations and a Meritorious Unit Commendation, and is a four-time winner of the coveted Battle Efficiency "E".
Yorktown served as
In August 1994 Yorktown set sail for the
In May 1997 Yorktown (with a reduced crew aboard) completed a five-month counter-narcotic deployment in the Caribbean followed by tests with
On 21 September 1997, a division by zero error on board the USS Yorktown (CG-48) Remote Data Base Manager brought down all the machines on the network, causing the ship's propulsion system to fail.[5][6]
On 25 September 1999 Yorktown departed Pascagoula for a four-month counter-narcotic deployment in the Caribbean. Before beginning patrolling efforts, Yorktown embarked staff members from Commander,
Fate
Yorktown was
On 16 September 2022, Yorktown was removed from the Philadelphia NIMSF and began its journey to Brownsville, Texas, where it will be scrapped.[9] It arrived in Brownsville on 29 November 2022.[10]
Smart ship testbed
From 1996 Yorktown was used as the testbed for the Navy's Smart Ship program. The ship was equipped with a network of 27 dual 200 MHz Pentium Pro-based machines running Windows NT 4.0 communicating over fiber-optic cable with a Pentium Pro-based server. This network was responsible for running the integrated control center on the bridge, monitoring condition assessment, damage control, machinery control and fuel control, monitoring the engines and navigating the ship. This system was predicted to save $2.8 million per year by reducing the ship's complement by 10%.
On 21 September 1997, while on maneuvers off the coast of Cape Charles, Virginia, a crew member entered a zero into a database field causing an attempted division by zero in the ship's Remote Data Base Manager, resulting in a buffer overflow which brought down all the machines on the network, causing the ship's propulsion system to fail.[11]
Anthony DiGiorgio, a civilian contractor with a 26-year history of working on Navy control systems, reported in 1998 that Yorktown had to be towed back to
In the 3 August 1998 issue of Government Computer News, a retraction by DiGiorgio was published. He claims the reporter altered his statements, and insists that he did not claim the Yorktown was towed into Norfolk. GCN stands by its story.[13]
Atlantic Fleet officials also denied the towing, reporting that Yorktown was "dead in the water" for just 2 hours and 45 minutes.[12] Captain Richard Rushton, commanding officer of Yorktown at the time of the incident, also denied that the ship had to be towed back to port, stating that the ship returned under its own power.[14]
Atlantic Fleet officials acknowledged that the Yorktown experienced what they termed "an engineering local area network casualty".[12] "We are putting equipment in the engine room that we cannot maintain and, when it fails, results in a critical failure," DiGiorgio said.[12]
Criticism of operating system choice ensued. Ron Redman, deputy technical director of the Fleet Introduction Division of the Aegis Program Executive Office, said that there have been numerous software failures associated with NT aboard the Yorktown.[12]
Because of politics, some things are being forced on us that without political pressure we might not do, like Windows NT. If it were up to me I probably would not have used Windows NT in this particular application ... Refining that is an ongoing process ... Unix is a better system for control of equipment and machinery, whereas NT is a better system for the transfer of information and data. NT has never been fully refined and there are times when we have had shutdowns that resulted from NT.
— Ron Redman[12]
Awards
- 3x Joint Meritorious Unit Awards – (02-30 Nov 1990, 05-16 Apr 1991, 1997)(1 for Operation Fiery Vigil)[1]
- 4x Navy Unit Commendations[1]
- 1x Meritorious Unit Commendations (as a unit of Mediterranean Carrier Battle Group 3-91)[1]
- 7x Battle Efficiency (Navy E) Ribbons – (1985, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2002)[1]
- 1x Navy Expeditionary Medal[1]
- 2x National Defense Service Medal
- 1x Humanitarian Service Medal – (Sep-Oct 1998)(as element of Navy Construction Battalion Center Gulfport 20th Naval Construction Regiment)[1]
- 1x Armed Forces Service Medal[1]
- 2x Coast Guard Special Operations Service Ribbon – (1990, 2002)[1]
- Sea Service Deployment Ribbon(multiple awards)
- Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award – (1992)
- James F. Chezek Memorial Gunnery Award – (1987)
- "Old Crow's" award for Electronic Warfare excellence – (1991)
See also
Notes
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Yorktown (CG-48) – Final Determination" (PDF). NAVSEA, US Navy. 30 November 2010.
- ^ Campbell, "USS Caron's Black Sea Scrape Furthered International Law, National Interest", The Virginian-Pilot and the Ledger-Star, 12 June 1988, at C3, col. 1.
- ^ Aceves, William J. "Diplomacy at Sea: U.S. Freedom of Navigation Operations in the Black Sea". International Law Studies. 68.
- ^ Lieutenant Commander John W. Rolph (December 2005). "Freedom of Navigation and the Black Sea Bumping Incident: How "Innocent" Must Innocent Passage Be?" (PDF). Military Law Review. 136: 146.
- Wired News. 24 July 1998. Archived from the originalon 30 December 2022.
- ^ William Kahan (14 October 2011). "Desperately Needed Remedies for the Undebuggability of Large Floating-Point Computations in Science and Engineering" (PDF). p. 54.
- ^ "Navy sink list includes Forrestal, destroyers". NavyTimes. Retrieved 12 February 2011.
- ^ "Inactive ship inventory" (PDF). NAVSEA, US Navy. 27 September 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 September 2021.
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGlkz0UrCn0
- ^ "Decommissioned USS Yorktown arrives for recycling in Rio Grande Valley". KVEO-TV. 29 November 2022. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
- Wired News. 24 July 1998.
- ^ a b c d e f Slabodkin, Gregory (13 July 1998). "Software glitches leave Navy Smart Ship dead in the water". Government Computer News. Archived from the original on 20 January 2009. Retrieved 18 June 2009.
- ^ DiGiorgio, Anthony (3 August 1998). "Letters to the Editor: DiGiorgio denies reported statements". Government Computer News. Retrieved 18 June 2009.
- ^ Slabodkin, Gregory (31 August 1998). "Smart Ship inquiry a go". Government Computer News. Retrieved 18 June 2009.
External links
- USS Yorktown webpage
- Software glitches leave Navy Smart Ship dead in the water from Government Computer News
- DiGiorgio denies reported statements from Government Computer News
- Smart Ship inquiry a go from Government Computer News
- Navy: Calibration flaw crashed Yorktown LAN from Government Computer News
- It's a smart lesson from Government Computer News
- Control-system designers say newer version could have prevented LAN crash from Government Computer News
- Ship History and selected pictures
- OT: Software glitches leave Navy Smart Ship dead in the water