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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.
Operation Sea Orbit was the 1964 circumnavigation of Task Force One of the United States Navy, consisting of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and her escorts, the cruisers USS Long Beach, and USS Bainbridge. This all-nuclear-powered unit sailed 30,565 miles around the world for sixty-five days without refueling. [1] [2]
USS Long Beach (AK-9), launched in 1892 as SS Yarrowdale, was a German cargo ship seized in 1917, in use until 1921, and sold the following year. 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 ...
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 ...
The Long Beach Naval Shipyard (Long Beach NSY or LBNSY), which closed in 1997, ... Bow of USS Kearsarge (CV-33) at Long Beach Naval Station, 1969.
From 1985 to 1987, Wyand said, he lived and worked on the USS George Philip, which was docked with many other ships on a pier extending into Long Beach Harbor. ... Some 400 miles north of Long ...
Lauren “LC” Conrad, Stephen Colletti, Dieter Schmitz and more of the hit MTV show’s stars gathered on Saturday, Nov. 30, for the 20-year reunion for Laguna Beach High School’s Class of 2004.
His next duty station was USS George K. MacKenzie, a Gearing-class destroyer, stationed at Long Beach then later at Yokosuka, Japan. In December 1969, Rogers reported to USS Vreeland, a Knox-class frigate to be the commissioning operations officer homeported in Charleston, South Carolina.