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Long Beach was stricken on 1 May 1995, more than 33 years after she had entered service. On 13 July 2012, Long Beach was sold at auction, [6] for recycling, as prescribed for nuclear-powered vessels by Code 350, at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington. As of May 2018, the inactivated ship's hull and reactor compartments largely ...
The last ship to be assigned a hull number in the Heavy and Light Cruiser sequence would be the 1950s era nuclear powered Long Beach, though this ship would be assigned another number and designation under the guided missile cruiser hull classification before launch. Long Beach class (CLGN/CGN-160) Long Beach, completed as CGN-9 (1961)
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]
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).
David Bloom’s three daughters were all under 10 years old when they saw him for the last time before his tragic death in 2003, but they can still remember the poignant moment in their family home.
The Pacific Reserve Fleet, Long Beach was used to store the now many surplus ships after World War II. Some ships in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Long Beach were reactivated for the Korean War and Vietnam War. At its closing the ships stored at Pacific Reserve Fleet, Long Beach were either scrapped or moved to other reserve fleets.
The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling would have turned 100 on Dec. 25, 2024. To commemorate the anniversary, Rod’s daughters, Jodi and Anne, are looking back on some of their most meaningful ...
On April 6, 2003, NBC’s David Bloom, 39, was in Iraq covering the war when he died suddenly of a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) complication.A clot that formed in his legs moved to his lungs ...