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USS Long Beach (CLGN-160/CGN-160/CGN-9) was a nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser in the United States Navy and the world's first nuclear-powered surface combatant. [3] She was the third Navy ship named after the city of Long Beach, California.
Long Beach, the largest of all the nuclear cruisers, was equipped with a C1W cruiser reactor, while all the others were equipped with D2G destroyer reactors. In the summer of 1964, Long Beach and Bainbridge would meet up with USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) , the Navy's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, [ 1 ] to form Task Force One , an all ...
Two nuclear-powered cruisers escort the carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65) in 1964 during Operation Sea Orbit: at center is the USS Long Beach (CGN-9), at left the destroyer leader USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25), which was reclassified as cruiser (CGN-25) in 1975.
USS Long Beach (PF-34), launched in 1943, was a Tacoma-class frigate that saw use from 1943 to 1945, before being loaned to the Soviet Navy and then in 1962 to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as Shii. USS Long Beach (CGN-9), launched in 1959, was the first nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser in the world, serving from 1961 to 1995 ...
Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum CSS H. L. Hunley: United States South Carolina: Charleston: Confederate States: 1863 Submarine: Warren Lasch Conservation Hall [23] [circular reference] CSS Neuse: United States North Carolina: Kinston: Confederate States: Albemarle class: Ironclad ram: CSS Neuse Civil War Museum [24] USS Hoga: United States ...
Template:Long Beach class cruiser; L. USS Long Beach (CGN-9) This page was last edited on 22 March 2024, at 22:23 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Brock arrived there on 13 April 1945, and joined the Florida Group, 16th Fleet, which later became the Florida Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet. Many of the deactivated World War II merchant vessels were of a class called Liberty ships which were mass-produced ocean-going transports used primarily in the convoys going to/from the U.S., Europe, and ...
Naval Station Mayport (IATA: NRB, ICAO: KNRB, FAA LID: NRB) is a major United States Navy base on San Pablo Island [3] in Jacksonville, Florida. It contains a protected harbor that can accommodate aircraft carrier-size vessels, ship's intermediate maintenance activity (SIMA) and a military airfield (Admiral David L. McDonald Field) with one ...