Long Beach-class cruiser

USS Long Beach (CGN-9)
Class overview
Name:	Long Beach class
Operators:	United States Navy
Preceded by:	Providence class
Succeeded by:	Albany class
Completed:	1
Retired:	1
General characteristics
Type:	Guided missile cruiser
Displacement:	15,025 tons
Length:	721 ft 3 in (219.84 m)
Beam:	73 ft 3 in (22.33 m)
Draft:	31 ft (9.4 m)
Propulsion:	2 C1W Westinghouse nuclear reactors 2 screws 80,000 shp (60,000 kW)
Speed:	32.5 knots (60.2 km/h; 37.4 mph)
Complement:	1,100 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.

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