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USS Long Beach, and USS Macdonough (far right), under construction at Fore River Shipyard, July 1959. Long Beach was originally ordered as CLGN-160. She was reclassified CGN-160 in early 1957, but was again reclassified as CGN-9 on 1 July 1957. Her keel was laid down on 2 December 1957 by Bethlehem Steel Co., Fore River Shipyard, Quincy ...
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: 33 years, 9 months and 7 days USS Truxtun: CGN-35 Truxtun: 564 ft 0 in (171.91 m) 8,659 tons 27 May 1967
USS Independence (LCS-2) Independence: Littoral Combat Ship: Stricken, final disposition pending. USS Lake Champlain (CG-57) Ticonderoga: Cruiser: Stricken, final disposition pending. USS Long Beach (CGN-9) Long Beach: Cruiser: Stricken, final disposition pending. USS Mobile Bay (CG-53) Ticonderoga: Cruiser: Stricken, final disposition pending.
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 ...
The US Navy began a study on scrapping nuclear submarines; two years later shallow land burial of reactor compartments was selected as the most suitable option. In 1990, USS Scamp was the first US nuclear-powered submarine to be scrapped .
Under the pre-1975 classification, cruisers were large vessels, the size of World War II gun cruisers, intended as the primary surface combatants. All but one (USS Long Beach (CGN-9)) were converted World War II gun cruisers (CL/CLG or CA/CAG), carrying either Talos or Terrier surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), and in some cases also Tartar missiles.
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 ...
USS Bainbridge (CGN-25) was a nuclear-powered development of the Leahy-class. Originally a guided-missile destroyer leader , the class was re-designated guided-missile cruiser in 1975. As with USS Long Beach (CGN-9) and USS Enterprise (CVN-65) , Bainbridge was the only member of its single-ship class.