38-513: Roland George "Gil" Guilbault (November 27, 1934 – April 6, 2012) was an American U.S. Navy rear admiral who commanded the USS Ticonderoga , the first Aegis cruiser. In 1987, he served as a battle force commander aboard the USS Eisenhower . He retired as a rear admiral in 1994. He obtained degrees from George Washington University and Université de Montréal . Guilbault served in
76-575: A Freedom of Navigation exercise in the Gulf of Sidra , moved south of the "Line of Death" in Libya, covered by fighter aircraft. Libya responded by unsuccessfully attacking battle-force aircraft. Ticonderoga responded by destroying several Libyan patrol boats. For her participation in the operation, Ticonderoga received her second Navy Unit Commendation and Navy Expeditionary Medal . During joint Navy-Air Force air strikes on Libyan targets on 15 April, she received
114-531: A historical marker near the alleged abduction site. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina 's 20-foot (6.1 m) storm surge devastated Pascagoula, much like Biloxi and Gulfport and the rest of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Katrina came ashore during the high tide of 6:12 AM, 2.1 ft (0.64 m) more. Nearly 92% of Pascagoula was flooded. Most homes along Beach Boulevard were destroyed, and FEMA trailers became an omnipresent sight. Due to
152-615: A reconnaissance mission over Lebanon . Ticonderoga made a port stop in Haifa, Israel , for the New Year and then returned to Norfolk, arriving on 4 May 1984. On 8 September 1984, while Ticonderoga was conducting exercises east of Mayport, Florida , a fire broke out in her aft main engine exhaust uptake. The At-Sea and General Quarters fire parties eventually put the fire out and Ticonderoga returned to Norfolk under her own power in early October. On 23 March 1986, Ticonderoga , while conducting
190-609: Is part of the Gulfport – Biloxi –Pascagoula Combined Statistical Area and the Gulfport-Biloxi metropolitan area . The population was 22,392 at the 2010 census , down from 26,200 at the 2000 census. In 2019 the population was 21,699. The city is served by three airports: Mobile Regional Airport , 34 miles (55 km) to the northeast in Alabama ; Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport , about 40 miles (64 km) west of Pascagoula; and
228-594: The Essex -class aircraft carrier Ticonderoga (CV-14) . CG-47 was launched on 25 April 1981 and christening on 16 May 1981 with First Lady Nancy Reagan , the ship's main sponsor, in attendance. Ticonderoga was delivered to the U.S. Navy on 13 December 1982 and commissioned in Pascagoula, Mississippi , on 22 January 1983 with Captain Roland Guilbault in command. CG-47 is the fifth United States Navy vessel to bear
266-461: The Naval Vessel Register , which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain . The entry can be found here . Pascagoula, Mississippi Pascagoula ( / p æ s k ə ɡ u l ə / PASS -kuh- GOOL -uh ) is a city in and the county seat of Jackson County, Mississippi , United States. It is the principal city of the Pascagoula metropolitan area , and
304-663: The Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal . In the late 1980s, she served in the Persian Gulf as part of Operation Earnest Will while under the command of Captain James M. Arrison III, USN. For a time in the late 1990s, she was based at Pascagoula, Mississippi, as part of Commander, Naval Surface Forces Atlantic 's Western Hemisphere Group. On 4 May 2004, she completed transit of the Panama Canal and then moved to cross
342-550: The Köppen Climate Classification system, Pascagoula has a humid subtropical climate , abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. The hottest temperature recorded in Pascagoula was 106 °F (41.1 °C) on August 26, 2023, while the coldest temperature recorded was 16 °F (−8.9 °C) on January 30, 2014. In the 2020 United States census , there were 22,010 people, 8,415 households, and 4,865 families residing in
380-596: The Pascagoula River , and the Pascagoula people's territory seems to have ranged between some distance north of there to the confluence of the Leaf and Chickasawhay rivers. However, the Pascagoula language is completely undocumented – thus, genealogical affiliations from other authors are speculation. The first European settlers of Pascagoula were Jean Baptiste Baudreau Dit Graveline, Joseph Simon De La Pointe and his aunt, Madame Chaumont. The region changed hands over
418-579: The Trent Lott International Airport , 9 miles (14 km) to the north in Jackson County. The name Pascagoula , which means "bread eater", is taken from the Pascagoula , a group of Native Americans found in villages along the Pascagoula River some distance above its mouth. Hernando de Soto seems to have made the first contact with them in the 1540s, though little is known of that encounter. Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville , founder of
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#1732863102907456-618: The 1960s as the building became the Pascagoula Public Library. The building was damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and the mural was placed in storage. In 2010, it was re-installed at the new Pascagoula post office on Jackson Avenue. Pascagoula is the home of the Old Spanish Fort , the oldest building in the Mississippi Valley. It was built sometime in the 1750s. Pascagoula is located along Mississippi Sound , on
494-793: The Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. She arrived in Norfolk on 3 June 1983, and then deployed on 20 October to the Mediterranean with the Independence carrier strike group . Although stopping in Portsmouth, England , for a brief port visit, Ticonderoga was dispatched to the coast of Beirut following the bombing of U.S. Marine barracks on 23 October 1983 . During her 48 days on station, she fired her five-inch guns at hostile artillery units attempting to shoot down two F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft performing
532-559: The Mediterranean. Over her first 10 years of service, Ticonderoga deployed multiple times to the Mediterranean , Atlantic , and Indian Oceans and the Persian Gulf . During Operation Desert Storm , she was attached to Battle Force Zulu and served as Arabian Gulf Track Coordinator. Although she was built with a 35-year service life , the limited missile capacity of Ticonderoga's twin Mark 26 missile launch systems rendered her obsolete by
570-625: The Naval Vessel Register, for disposal. In October of the same year, The Ticonderoga Historical Society reported that the US Navy was going to scrap the ship after a number of potential museum sites were unable to add her to their collections. In June 2014, NAVSEA released a disposal reporting letter declaring the ex- Ticonderoga to be available for inspection by bidders and ready for disposal by scrapping or sinking. In September 2020, she arrived at Brownsville, Texas, for scrapping. Ticonderoga
608-569: The Navy for 34 years and later held executive positions with Lucent Technologies and Digital Equipment Corporation . This biographical article related to the United States Navy is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . USS Ticonderoga (CG-47) USS Ticonderoga (DDG/CG-47) , nicknamed "Tico", was a guided missile cruiser built for the United States Navy . She
646-737: The Pascagoula Public Library's first floor and causing mold in the building. The United States post office in Pascagoula contains a mural, Legend of the Singing River , painted in 1939 by Lorin Thompson . Murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in the United States through the Section of Painting and Sculpture , later called the Section of Fine Arts, of the Treasury Department . The mural was restored in
684-404: The average family size was 3.05. In the city, the population was 26.9% under the age of 18, 12.0% from 18 to 24, 28.9% from 25 to 44, 20.4% from 45 to 64, and 11.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females, there were 101.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.9 males. The median income for a household in the city was $ 32,042, and
722-478: The beach to serve as low-profile dune cores to protect the evacuation route. United States Navy officials announced that two Arleigh Burke -class guided missile destroyers that were under construction at Northrop Grumman Ship Systems in Pascagoula had been damaged by the storm, as well as the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island . Hurricane Katrina damaged over forty Mississippi libraries, flooding
760-557: The city. As of the census of 2000, there were 26,200 people, 9,878 households, and 6,726 families living in the city. The population density was 1,726.4 inhabitants per square mile (666.6/km ). There were 10,931 housing units at an average density of 720.3 units per square mile (278.1 units/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 67.15% White , 28.97% African American , 0.18% Native American , 0.97% Asian , 0.02% Pacific Islander , 1.67% from other races , and 1.04% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.89% of
798-466: The city. Pascagoula is a major industrial city of Mississippi, on the Gulf Coast . Prior to World War II , the town was a sleepy fishing village of about 5,000. The population skyrocketed with the war-driven shipbuilding industry. The city's population seemed to peak in the late 1970s and early 1980s as Cold War defense spending was at its height. Pascagoula experienced some new growth and development in
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#1732863102907836-554: The colony of Louisiana , left a more detailed account from an expedition of this region in 1700. The first detailed account comes from Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville , younger brother of Iberville, whom the Pascagoula visited at Fort Maurepas in present-day Ocean Springs , shortly after it was settled and while the older brother was away in France. There are few details that are certain about these people, except that their language seemed not to have shared an etymological root with
874-701: The east side of the mouth of the Pascagoula River . It is bordered to the north by Moss Point and to the west, across the Pascagoula River, by Gautier . The city has a total area of 24.5 square miles (63.4 km ), of which 15.4 square miles (39.8 km ) are land and 9.1 square miles (23.6 km ), or 37.25%, are water. U.S. Route 90 (Denny Avenue) passes through the city, leading northeast 16 miles (26 km) to Grand Bay, Alabama , and west 21 miles (34 km) to Biloxi . Mississippi Highway 613 (Telephone Road) leads north from US-90 into Moss Point and 5 miles (8 km) to Interstate 10 . According to
912-710: The end of the Cold War . As a result, Ticonderoga adopted a primary mission of counternarcotics in the 1990s and 2000s, and made multiple patrols of the Caribbean in that role. After being decommissioned in 2004, Ticonderoga was stored at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility in Philadelphia . She arrived in Brownsville, Texas , for scrapping in 2020. The contract to build DDG-47 Ticonderoga
950-761: The equator. Her ship crew engaged in the rites and rituals of the crossing, inducting the captain of the ship and many of the crew in to "Shell-Backs". She completed her final deployment on 3 August 2004. Ticonderoga then made liberty port visits to Cozumel, Mexico (15-17 March); Colon (27-28 March); Mayport (1-9 April); Guantánamo Bay (12-13 April); Cartagena, Colombia (27-29 May); Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Panama (6-7 May); and Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala (17-19 May). She conducted counter-narcotics operations in conjunction with Colombian military authorities from April–June. Ticonderoga successfully intercepted five cigarette-shaped “go-fast” smuggling boats, and one fishing vessel, netting over 14,000 pounds of cocaine, and detaining 25 suspects in
988-630: The larger native groups to the north, the Choctaw particularly, who speak a Muskogean language . There has been speculation that their language may be related to Biloxi . The Biloxi people spoke a now extinct Siouan language , which is related to the languages spoken by the Sioux , Crow , and Ho-Chunk . The territory of the Biloxi people seems to have ranged from the areas of what are now called Biloxi Bay to Bayou La Batre ( Alabama ) and 25 miles (40 km) up
1026-418: The media focus on the plight of New Orleans and Biloxi-Gulfport in the aftermath of Katrina, many Pascagoula citizens have expressed feeling neglected or even forgotten following the storm. Most Pascagoula residents did not possess flood insurance , and many were required to put their homes on pilings before being given a permit to rebuild. TITANTubes, sometimes referred to as geotubes , were installed under
1064-498: The median income for a family was $ 39,044. Males had a median income of $ 30,313 versus $ 22,594 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 16,891. About 18.1% of families and 20.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 31.4% of those under age 18 and 13.0% of those age 65 or over. According to census 2010, Pascagoula has the highest percentage of Puerto Ricans in Mississippi. Puerto Ricans make up nearly 5% of
1102-805: The name Ticonderoga . She was named for the Capture of Fort Ticonderoga in 1775, the start of the American offensive during the American Revolution . The name "Ticonderoga" is derived from the Iroquois word tekontaró:ken , meaning "it is at the junction of two waterways". Most of the ships in the Ticonderoga class are similarly named for significant battles in U.S. history. Departing for her new homeport of Naval Station Norfolk , Virginia, soon after her commissioning in Pascagoula, Ticonderoga completed exercises in
1140-711: The next century, being occupied variously by the English, French, and Spanish until well after the American Revolutionary War . It came into the permanent possession of the United States in 1812 when it was added to the Mississippi Territory . At one point, for 74 days in 1810, Pascagoula was a part of what was known as the Republic of West Florida . Pascagoula was incorporated as a village in 1892. It obtained city status in 1901. Today's downtown Pascagoula used to be
1178-402: The population. There were 9,878 households, of which 34.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.6% were married couples living together, 18.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.9% were non-families. 27.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.52 and
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1216-405: The process. She was decommissioned on 30 September of that year. After her decommissioning, she was towed to the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility in Philadelphia . In 2010, she was offered for museum donation by the Navy. An effort was made to bring Ticonderoga to Pascagoula, Mississippi, where she was built, to serve as a museum ship. In May 2013, the vessel was formally stricken from
1254-475: The ship 360° coverage of the surrounding airspace. Following the cancellation of the Strike Cruiser program, flagship capabilities were added to the Ticonderoga class's design and the ship was then redesignated as a guided-missile cruiser, CG-47 on 1 January 1980, shortly before her keel was laid. Ticonderoga's keel was laid down on 21 January 1980, the 35th anniversary of the devastating kamikaze attack on
1292-555: The town of Scranton, Mississippi, incorporated in 1870. The two towns merged in 1904 by Governor's proclamation and in 1912 by Mississippi legislative act. In October 1973, an alleged unidentified flying object sighting and alien abduction is said to have occurred when co-workers Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker claimed they were abducted by aliens while fishing near Pascagoula. The incident, Pascagoula Abduction , earned substantial mass media attention. In June 2019, Pascagoula placed
1330-428: The years before Hurricane Katrina . Today, Pascagoula is home to the state's largest private, single-site employer, Ingalls Shipbuilding , owned by Huntington Ingalls Industries . Other major industries include the largest Chevron refinery in the world; Rolls-Royce Naval Marine, specializing in U.S. Navy ship propulsion; and First Chemical/Chemours. Naval Station Pascagoula was located on Singing River Island and
1368-576: Was awarded to Ingalls Shipbuilding on 22 September 1978. The ship's design was based on that of the Spruance -class destroyer . While sharing the same hull, the Ticonderoga -class design featured two large deckhouses and the Aegis combat system that together increased the ship's displacement from the Spruance -class baseline of 6,900 tons to 9,600 tons. On each of the two deckhouses were two AN/SPY-1 radars that gave
1406-620: Was featured in the 1986 Tom Clancy novel Red Storm Rising , defending the USS ; Nimitz and USS Saratoga combined battlegroups against, and getting seriously damaged by, the saturation antiship missile attack in the Norwegian Sea by Soviet Tu-22M bombers. Ticonderoga was mentioned in the Tom Waits song "Shore Leave" on his 1983 album Swordfishtrombones . [REDACTED] This article includes information collected from
1444-621: Was the lead ship of the Ticonderoga class and the first U.S. Navy combatant to incorporate the Aegis combat system . Originally ordered as a guided-missile destroyer , she was redesignated as a cruiser after capabilities from the cancelled Strike cruiser program were implemented into the ship's design. The new AEGIS system allowed Ticonderoga to track and engage many aerial targets more effectively than any previous U.S. Navy warship. Ticonderoga entered service in 1983 and deployed later that year to
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