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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 .

  3. Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility - Wikipedia

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    A Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF) is a facility owned by the United States Navy as a holding facility for decommissioned naval vessels, pending determination of their final fate. All ships in these facilities are inactive, but some are still on the Naval Vessel Register (NVR), while others have been struck from the register.

  4. Providence-class cruiser - Wikipedia

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    All three Providence-class ships were decommissioned to the reserve fleet between 1969 and 1974. In the 1975 cruiser realignment, Providence and Springfield were reclassified as guided missile cruisers (CG). The ships were stricken from the Naval Vessel Register between 1974 and 1980, and eventually sold for scrap.

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

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    Ship Name Hull Number Class Length Displacement Commissioned Decommissioned Service Life Notes USS Long Beach: CGN-9 Long Beach: 721 ft 3 in (219.84 m) 15,540 tons 9 September 1961: 1 May 1995: 33 years, 7 months and 23 days USS Bainbridge: CGN-25 Bainbridge: 565 ft 0 in (172.21 m) 9,100 tons 6 October 1962: 13 July 1996

  6. USS Long Beach - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Category:Long Beach-class cruisers - Wikipedia

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    Printable version; In other projects ... Template:Long Beach class cruiser; L. USS Long Beach (CGN-9) This page was ...

  8. The Navy knows thousands may have been exposed to cancer ...

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    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. It was the worst contaminated area ...

  9. United States Navy reserve fleets - Wikipedia

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    The usual fate of ships in the reserve fleet, though, is to become too old and obsolete to be of any use, at which point they are sold for scrapping or are scuttled in weapons tests. In rare cases, the general public may intercede for ships from the reserve fleet that are about to be scrapped – usually asking for the Navy to donate them for ...