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Long Beach was the last cruiser built with a World War II-era cruiser hull style, [5] [6] as later new-build cruisers were built with different hull forms, such as the converted frigates Leahy, Bainbridge, Belknap, Truxtun, and the California and Virginia classes, or the Ticonderoga-class cruiser that was built on a Spruance-class destroyer hull.
Emerging from the yard on 11 July 1941, the heavy cruiser sailed for Long Beach on the 16th. Later shifting to San Pedro, Astoria sailed for Pearl Harbor on 24 July 1941. Following her return to Hawaii on 31 July, Astoria operated between Oahu and Midway through early September.
With the end of World War II the shipyard was again renamed on 30 November 1945 to Terminal Island Naval Shipyard and in March 1948 renamed to Long Beach Naval Shipyard (NSY) On 15 November 1946, the adjoining Naval Station Long Beach was established. [10]
Cruiser: Stricken, final disposition pending. USS Long Beach (CGN-9) Long Beach: Cruiser: Stricken, final disposition pending. USS Mobile Bay (CG-53) Ticonderoga: Cruiser: Stricken, final disposition pending. USNS Rainier (T-AOE-7) Supply: Fast Combat Support Ship: Stricken, final disposition pending.
With the exception of the purpose-built nuclear powered guided missile cruiser Long Beach, all of the early guided missile cruisers were converted heavy or light cruisers from the World War II era. The early conversions were heavy (CAG) and light (CLG) 'single-enders' which placed the missile facilities aft and conservatively retained their ...
On 15 November 1946, the adjoining Naval Station Long Beach was established. [7] The shipyard was renamed Long Beach Naval Shipyard (NSY) in March 1948. [2] During World War II, the naval dry docks provided routine and battle damage repairs to a parade of tankers, cargo ships, troop transports, destroyers, and cruisers. Peak employment of ...
Cruisers Number in commission Number lost Loss rate Theatre Pacific Atlantic Panama Large cruisers (CB) 2 0.0% Heavy cruisers (CA) 30 7 23.3% 7 Light cruisers (CL) 34 1 2.9% 1 AA light cruisers (CLAA) 8 2 25.0% 2 Escorts Number in commission Number lost Loss rate Theatre Pacific Atlantic Panama Old destroyers (DD) * 132 12 9.1% 5 7 New ...
USS San Francisco (CL/CA-38), a New Orleans-class cruiser, was the second ship of three of the United States Navy named after the city of San Francisco, California.. Commissioned in 1934, she was one of the most decorated ships of World War II, earning 17 battle stars and the Presidential Uni