USS Ticonderoga (CG-47) Model. Fly off of the USS Ticonderoga (CG-47) in this handcrafted wooden model. Each model is carved from wood and handcrafted to provide a piece you’ll love. Length – 24 inches. US Veteran Owned Business. The product is not intended to be used by children 12 years and younger. USS Ticonderoga (DDG/CG-47) was a guided-missile cruiser of the United States Navy. CG-47 is the fifth United States Navy vessel to carry on the name Ticonderoga. [3] She was also named after the Essex-class aircraft carrier Ticonderoga (CV-14) that was nearly sunk during World War II. The name “Ticonderoga” comes from an Iroquois word tekontaró:ken, meaning “it is at the junction of two waterways”. The United States Navy built the first Aegis cruisers using the hull and machinery designs of Spruance-class destroyers. Ticonderoga was ordered as a guided missile destroyer, but redesignated as a cruiser before she was laid down. The contract to build DDG-47 Ticonderoga was awarded to Ingalls Shipbuilding on 22 September 1978. On 1 January 1980, she was redesignated as a guided missile cruiser, CG-47. Her keel was laid down on 21 January 1980, the 35th anniversary of the devastating kamikaze attack on the Essex-class aircraft carrier Ticonderoga. CG-47 was launched on 25 April 1981 and was delivered on 13 December 1982. In the late 1980s, she served in the Persian Gulf as part of Operation Earnest Will while under the command of Captain James M. For a time in the late 1990s, she was based at Pascagoula, Mississippi, as part of Commander, Naval Surface Forces Atlantic’s Westerns Hemisphere Group.