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USS Long Beach (CGN-9)
Class overview
NameLong Beach class
Operators United States Navy
Preceded byTemplate:Sclass-
Succeeded byTemplate:Sclass-
Completed1
Retired1
General characteristics
TypeGuided missile cruiser
Displacement15,025 tons
Length721 ft 3 in (219.84 m)
Beam73 ft 3 in (22.33 m)
Draft31 ft (9.4 m)
Propulsion
Speed32.5 knots (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph)
Complement1,100 officers and enlisted
Armament
  • 1 × twin-rail Talos SAM launcher (later removed)
  • 2 × twin-rail Terrier launcher (replaced by SM-1ER)
  • 2 × 5 in guns
  • 2 Mk-15 Vulcan-Phalanx 20mm CIWS
  • 1 octuple ASROC launcher
  • 2 quadruple Harpoon SSM launchers
  • 2 triple Mk-32 12.75inch ASW torpedo tubes for Mk-44 or Mk-46 torpedoes

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, or, in the case of the Albany class, converted from already existent cruisers.

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 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 was under overhaul from 6 October 1980 until 26 March 1983. She was both decommissioned and stricken on 1 May 1995.

Ships in class

Name Hull Number Builder Laid Down Launched Commissioned Decommissioned Fate
Long Beach CGN-9 Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy 2 December 1957 14 July 1959 9 September 1961 1 May 1995 Disposed of through the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program at Bremerton in 2002

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