USS Long Beach CGN-9

Type:
Cruiser
Class:
Long Beach
Builder:
Bethlehem Steel Corp.
Fore River Shipyard
Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Hull Number:
CGN-9
Ordered:
October 15, 1956
Commissioned:
September 9, 1961
Keel Laid:
December 2, 1957
Decommissioned:
May 1, 1995
Launched:
July 14, 1959
Stricken:
May 1, 1995
Fate:
Scrapped. Nuclear reactor scrapped at Puget Sound Naval shipyard, Bremerton, WA. in 2002.
Hull sold to Tacoma Metals, Tacoma, WA on July 12, 2012 and scrapped.
Notes:
Ordered as CLGN-160, reclassified CGN-160 and again reclassified as CGN-9 before laid down.


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Page published Mar. 25, 2015