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Events and News
Newsletters:
Volume 1: Issue 2
July 2010
Volume 1: Issue 1
March 2010
Friday, June 13, 2008
By AMBER CRAIG
Staff Reporter
PASCAGOULA -- Community members pushing to bring the decommissioned USS Ticonderoga to Pascagoula plan to ask the U.S. Navy for an extension of more than a year on the July deadline to turn in the application. read more
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USS Ticonderoga may come home to Pascagoula
Cherie Ward; The Mississippi Press
BATON ROUGE - More than 40 officials and community leaders from Jackson County embarked Thursday on a fact finding mission to tour the destroyer USS Kidd in Louisiana. The exploratory trip, sponsored by the Mississippi Ticonderoga Project and Vision Tours of Ocean Springs, was intended to provide ways to relocate the decommissioned USS Ticonderoga to Pascagoula. The guided missile cruiser would be the centerpiece of a proposed Mississippi Maritime and Warship Museum on the east bank of the city - in the heart of a proposed waterfront development.
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A slide show of the visit to the USS Kidd can be seen by going to the "Photos" page.
PARTICIPANTS
Participating in the Mississippi Ticonderoga Project trip to the USS Kidd warship museum in Baton Rouge, La., were the following.
Pascagoula Mayor Matthew Avara Pascagoula
Councilman Keith Belcher Pascagoula
Councilman Joe Abston Pascagoula
Councilman Frank Corder Pascagoula
Councilman Robert Stallworth Gautier
Councilman Dick Paul Ocean Springs
Mayor Connie Moran
Jackson County Board of Supervisor Mike Mangum
Jackson County Board of Supervisor Manly Barton
Jackson County Board of Supervisor President John McKay
Jackson County Board of Supervisor Melton Harris
Bill Webb, Mississippi Development Authority
Billy Baronich, U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor's staff member
Debbie Anglin, communications director for the Pascagoula School District
Adam Askew, Hancock Bank
Anita Belcher, Excel by 5
David Boland, Pavoc
Charles Busby, Orion Engineering
Amy Brandenstein, Chevron Refinery Pascagoula
Rebecca Davis, Pascagoula Main Street Association
Delores Early, Ticonderoga Task Force member
Jim Estabrook, Estabrook Motors Liz Ford, Historic Preservation Commission Cynthia Garlich, Ticonderoga Task Force member
Dr. Jack Hoover, Gulf Coast OBGYN
Pat Keene, Ticonderoga Task Force member
Pam Lindsey, Charter Bank Retired
Adm. Jim Lisanby
Robbie Maxwell, Maxwell and Associates
Diann Payne, Jackson County Civic Action
Parker Pugh, Gulf Coast Business Council
Jerry St. Pé, St. Pé and Associates
Dr. James Sutton, Vision Tours
Carla Todd, Jackson County Chamber of Commerce
Todd Trenchard, Merchants and Marine Bank
Lynn Truelove, Singing River Hospital Systems
Alice Walker, Pascagoula Economic Development
Tim Lee, owner of WPMP radio |
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 TICONDEROGA FACTS
Homeport: Pascagoula Keel Laid: Jan. 27, 1980 Launched: April 25, 1981 Commissioned: Jan. 22, 1983 Decommissioned: Sept. 30, 2004, and sent to the Naval Inactive Ships Maintenance Facility in Philadelphia, Pa.
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding, West Bank, Pascagoula
Propulsion system: Four General Electric LM 2500 gas turbine engines
Length: 567 feet Beam: 55 feet Draft: 34 feet Displacement: about 9,600 tons full load
Speed: 30+ knots Crew: 24 officers, 340 enlisted Cost: About $1 billion Aircraft: two SH-60 Seahawks Armament: Two Mk 26 missile launchers, standard missiles and ASROC, Mk 46 torpedoes, harpoon missile launchers two Mk 45 5-inch/54 caliber lightweight guns, two Phalanx CIWS.
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