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2. USS Long Beach (CGN-9) - Wikipedia

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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. She was the sole member of the Long Beach class, and the last cruiser built for the United States ...

3. USS Honolulu (CL-48) - Wikipedia

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   18 × single 20 mm (0.79 in) Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons. USS Honolulu (CL-48) of the United States Navy was a Brooklyn -class light cruiser active in the Pacific War (World War II). Honolulu was launched in 1937 and commissioned in 1938. She was the only cruiser to survive the Battle of Tassafaronga undamaged.

4. USS Saint Paul (CA-73) - Wikipedia

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   4. USS Saint Paul (CA-73), a Baltimore -class cruiser, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her keel was laid down as Rochester on 3 February 1943 by the Bethlehem Steel Company in Quincy, Massachusetts. She was launched on 16 September 1944 sponsored by Mrs. Marie Gordon McDonough, [1] wife of ...

5. List of cruisers of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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   This list of cruisers of the United States Navy includes all ships that were ever called "cruiser", either publicly or in internal documentation. The Navy has 12 Ticonderoga -class cruisers in active service, as of 28 June 2024, with the last tentatively scheduled for decommissioning in 2027. With the cancellation of the CG (X) program in 2010 ...

6. Nuclear-powered cruisers of the United States Navy - Wikipedia

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   In the early 1960s, the United States Navy was the world's first to have nuclear-powered cruisers as part of its fleet. The first such ship was USS Long Beach (CGN-9). Commissioned in late summer 1961, she was the world's first nuclear-powered surface combatant. She was followed a year later by USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25).

7. USS Omaha (CL-4) - Wikipedia

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   USS Omaha (CL-4), in New York Harbor, 10 February 1943. USS Omaha (CL-4) was the lead ship of the Omaha -class light cruiser of the United States Navy. She was originally classified as a scout cruiser. She was the second US Navy ship named for the city of Omaha, Nebraska, the first being Omaha, a screw sloop launched in 1869.