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USS Little Rock (CL-92/CLG-4/CG-4) is a Cleveland-class light cruiser and one of 27 completed for the United States Navy during or shortly after World War II.She is one of six to be converted to guided missile cruisers and the first US Navy ship to be named for Little Rock, Arkansas.
USS Little Rock (LCS-9), is a Freedom-class littoral combat ship launched in 2015 and commissioned in 2017. List of ships with the same or similar names This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names.
Peter Kendall Cullins (November 19, 1928 [3] – May 3, 2012) was an American U.S. Navy admiral who commanded the USS Waddell and the USS Little Rock, [4] a 1000-man guided missile cruiser and the flagship for Commander of the Sixth Fleet.
The USS Detroit and USS Little Rock were decommissioned Friday. Two other Mayport LCS have been retired since August. Four more will be axed in 2025.
Little Rock deployed with the surface warfare mission-package and a U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement detachment. [24] Little Rock was planned to be inactivated in FY 2022, and to join the Out of Commission in Reserve (OCIR) list, [25] but in the final 2022 budget, Congress blocked the Navy's request to retire the ship. [26]
The Little Rock, refit in 1960 and re-designated as Galveston-class guided missile light cruiser CLG-4 (later CG-4), is now a museum ship at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park in Buffalo, New York, alongside the Fletcher-class destroyer The Sullivans, and the Gato-class submarine, Croaker. [10]
On 20 June 1976, USS Spiegel Grove transported 110 Americans and 157 nationals of other countries from Lebanon to Piraeus, Greece. [2] On 27 July, 300 additional persons, including 155 Americans, were evacuated to Piraeus. [3] The cruiser USS Little Rock was present off the Lebanese coast during both evacuations. [4]
The World War II submarine USS Croaker was brought to Buffalo in 1988, where it serves alongside USS The Sullivans and USS Little Rock. It was modernized in 1953 as a hunter-killer submarine during the Cold War, and resides at the Buffalo Naval and Military Park. [7]