Bainbridge-class cruiser

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USS Bainbridge, only ship of her class
Class overview
Builders: Bethlehem Steel, Quincy, Massachusetts
Operators:  United States Navy
Preceded by: Leahy class cruiser
Succeeded by: Belknap class cruiser
Cost: US$163.6 million[ 1]:331 for one ship
Built: 1959–1961
In commission: 1962–1996
Completed: 1
Retired: 1

USS Bainbridge (CGN-25) was a nuclear-powered development of the Leahy-class cruiser. 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.

Bainbridge (DLGN-25) was largely identical to the Leahy-class[ 1]:329 except for the replacement of her four 1200 lb/in2 steam boilers with two D2G reactors, and related increases in displacement, length and beam.[ 1]:331 Bainbridge's engineering department carried 7 officers and 156 enlisted men—respectively 3 and 42 more than a contemporary steam-powered vessel.[ 1]:331

The lessons learned on Bainbridge were later adapted to the next nuclear-powered ship, USS Truxtun (CGN-35) and the California and Virginia classes of nuclear-powered cruiser.[citation needed]

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References

  1. ↑ Friedman, Norman (2004) [1982], U.S. Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History, Illustrated Design Histories (revised, illustrated ed.), Annapolis, MD, United States: Naval Institute Press, pp. 327–334, ISBN 9781557504425, OCLC 51861947, retrieved October 13, 2012, "The Bainbridge was essentially a nuclear version of the Leahy class." 
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