Long Beach class cruiser

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Long Beach-class guided missile cruiser
USS Long Beach, only ship of her class.
Class Overview
Class type: Guided missile cruiser
Class name: Long Beach, California
Preceded by: Providence class cruiser
Succeeded by: Albany class cruiser
Ships of the line: Long Beach (CGN-9)

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.

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[edit] Ships of the Long Beach class

  Keel laid Launched Commissioned Decommissioned
USS Long Beach (CGN-9)   December 1957   July 1957   September 1961   May 1995

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