Long Beach class cruiser

Long Beach class cruiser

The "Long Beach" class cruiser is a single-ship class (sole member, USS Long Beach (CGN-9), ex-CGN-160, ex-CLGN-160) of the United States Navy. The class is noted as the world's first nuclear-powered surface combatant, and the last cruiser built in the US Navy to a cruiser design; all subsequent cruiser classes were built on scaled-up destroyer hulls.

During the design phase, the only ship of the "Long Beach" class was initially classified as CLGN-160, then reclassified CGN-160 on 6 December 1956. The keel of the USS "Long Beach" was laid by Bethlehem Steel on 2 December 1957 at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts. On 1 July 1958 she received her third and final classification, this time as CGN-9. The ship was launched on 14 July 1959 and commissioned on 9 September 1961. The "Long Beach" class under overhaul from 6 October 1980 until 26 March 1983. She was both decommissioned and stricken on 1 May 1995.

Ships of the "Long Beach" class

External links

* [http://www.hazegray.org hazegray.org]
* [http://www.history.navy.mil US Naval Historical Center]


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