Dwight Eisenhower (CVN 69) - Naval Cruise Book

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Ike was promoted to General 0 sttnencler on May 7, 1945, was 19, 1945, he was named Army After the war, Ike selved established under the won election easily to become that the Navy's nuclear nuclear attack ENTERPRISE Were l Ike left the White in Gettysburg, Pa., Where Fort

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cl ,Kiln L2 Y S IKE Facts IKE by the numbers Commissioned Propulsion Number of Reactors TWO Speed In excess of 50 knots 1 092 feet 257 feet 5 and one half inches 206 feet 6 inches Approximately 4 5 acres Approximately 95 000 tons More than 5 500 men More than 5 200 October 18 1977 Nuclear Power Length overall Extreme breadth flight deck Height keel to mast top Area of flight deck Displacement Cwith full combat loadD Complement Cvvith air Wing embarkedD Number of spaces and compartments Number of rudders TWO Three NATO Sea Sparrow Missile Systems Three Phalanz Close In Weapons Systems 29 X 22 feet Armament Dimensions of rudders Number of anchors TWO Weight of each anchor 30 IOHS 1 082 feet 565 pounds 508 000 pounds . . ............-.......-..... .... ...... . . . .... ... .... ... ... ... ... .. .. . .,. . .. . ... .. --...-.... , .....................-............ ..... ... -... -... . . --. ... . .. .... ... ... .. ...............-.----.-.-.---......... 7 , . nunnsonnuuu luuuv I nu our nnnu nnuu n un luup nun lnnu u unions: 7 - . . , .............-.......-.... ... ... .. . ... ... .... ... ... .. ...-...-.--.-.--.U-........ . 7 I I ........ ... .... -. .... -. ... ... ... ... .......- 1 , I . . ...... .. -... ... ... .. .. .. ... .... ...-......- , Length of each anchor chain .................... . .... .. .... .... ..... . . .. ....... , Weight of each link in anchor chain ......... . ........ .. .. . .... .. . ... . Weight of each entire anchor chain ..... .. . . .... .. ....... , Number of main engines .................... . . . ........... . ..... . . .. . . . ................................. .......Four .. .. . .. .. ........Four with five blades each ...............--.-Q.-H . . ... .. . . ' . . ..... . . ...-... 7 ' ......... . ................ . .... . ......... . ................................ .552 ' .............................................................. .... . . ....... . ..... ..... ......... . . . .................. ....550 . ....... . ................ .... ....... . . ..... . ............................................ . .. , 7 , . ' - Number of propellers Weight of each propeller 11 tons Diameter of each propeller 21 feet Number of aircraft elevators Four Size of each aircraft elevator Number of catapults Four 5 880 square feet In the course of a day on HCE Number of meals served Number of hot dogs served Number of hamburgers served Number of eggs consumed Gallons of milk consumed Loaves of bread baked Haircuts Pounds of laundry Washed 6 000 Canned sodas consumed 6 900 Water distilled More than 20 000 More than 450 More than 2 800 More than 520 dozen More than 700 More than 400 000 gallons By a deploymentis end Aircraft sorties Number of messages sent and received Number of surgical procedures Number of tooth extractions More than 7 000 More than 1 million More than 120 More than 1 500 And rn general There are over 50 000 lighting fixtures in IKE and more than 1 900 shipboard telephones The elec tronic equipment varies in Weight from six ounces to 22,000 pounds and, in total, uses more than 1 billion tubes, transistors and diodes The air conditioning plants have a capacity of 2,520 tons, enough to serve more than 800 homes

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Refresher Training, or RefT ra, is a two-week period that car- ries the crew through the Worst of contingencies. Fire, flooding, mass casual- ties and non-stop enemy threats fill each day. With the help and critical examination of the Fleet Training Group, IKE's crew tack- led each battle obstacle, evalu- ated their efforts and squared off against the next problem. By mid-Week, the level of expertise was steadily rising. Damage Control Central and the damage control teams evolved into an efficient force ready to face any threat. FTG trainers cast the same critical eye on communications, navigation, flight deck opera- tions and various other elements necessary to make IKE battle ready. 34