AHM. Long Beach's deployment as the flagship of the Surface Action Group (SAG) alongside the Iowa class battleship USS New Jersey was a very interesting deployment. Consequently, she was redesigned and expanded to a . A family friend also made one Tiger Cruise but he spent most of the time in his bunk seasick. Long Beach was . My regret was that my father had died from a heart attack while I was on the Arkansas and wasn't there to witness my 'pinning.' At the time, Long Beach had the highest bridge of any ship smaller than an aircraft carrier. 1959. After a period of leave and upkeep in the fall,USSLong Beach(CGN9)sailed 7 November from Long Beach for the Far East. Technology. Long Beach had the cradles for the Harpoon anti-ship missiles on the fantail now. Revell. Please see below for item level images and donated collections containing photographs ofUSS Long Beach (CGN-9). [15] In June of the same year, she downed another MIG,[14] this one at 61 miles (98km). I wanted to apply for the Navy's Enlisted Science Education Program (NESEP) which required a minimum of one year's sea duty in order to be eligible. At 721 feet long, over 17,000 tons displacement and a crew of over 1,100 Sailors and Marines (there was a Marine detachment embarked), she was a truly impressive ship! USS Jenkins later sank an enemy barge to the east of Hollandia, killing nine Japanese. I received some extra 'military instruction' that evening. Because of this, Long Beach also had plenty of chill water cooling available. Select from premium Long Beach Naval Station of the highest quality. TheLong Beachwas powered bytwo C1W nuclear reactors, with two General Electric steam turbines, which provided 59.68 MW (80,000 shp). She symbolizes a time when nuclear power was in its ascendance. [citation needed], Long Beach served as an escort for the USSMissouri(BB-63) task force, and provided aircraft carrier escort support after the Gulf War of 1991. At the end of Class A school, I was advanced to EM3 (E4). This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. From that position,Long Beach maintained constant radar surveillance to ensure that the North Vietnamese intruder aircraft couldnt evade identification and attempt to confront U.S. strike aircraft. The ship received multiple reffits including the replacement of the 5in guns per Tomahawks and Harpoon launchers. The breakdown was caused by a watchstander's failure to check the shaft alley hourly as required. My wife arranged a flight from Sacramento to San Diego so we could drive to the base located near Chicago. After checking out both the Air Force and Navy, I decided to enlist in the Navy's Nuclear Propulsion Program as I felt it offered me the most interesting and challenging training. Enterprise had eight reactors while Long Beach had two. The majority of the cruise was without drama other than the Tu-95 Bear flybys with fighters from Enterprise escorting them off their wingtips. USSLong Beach(CGN9) was originally ordered as CLG (N)160. I was correct in that there were more good examples to learn from on the Long Beach. He told me to put a request through the district CO and if approved he'd give me a spot on the Long Beach. As such, her main responsibility was to "sanitize" returning U.S. strike aircraft, ensuring that no enemy aircraft were attempting to evade identification by hiding amongst returning friendlies. The watch in Damage Control Central claimed he saw 47 degrees on the clinometer. She was also the last cruiser built for the U.S. Navy as a cruiser design as all subsequent cruiser classes were essentially built on scaled-up destroyer hulls or converted from existing cruisers. The decision was made to decommission her in 1994. Our next port visit after the conclusion of the exercise was Melbourne, Australia. 1969. Upon arriving, we were told that we'd only be in port for a few hours and that only crew members with official business would be allowed off of the ship. After that experience, I was very reluctant to send a female applicant for processing until I was working a booth at the Long Beach Grand Prix and met a Reserve Second Class who was a female and she relayed to me that her recruiter had been the guy who was the Chief Recruiter! USS Long Beach 1961 Revell Model Ship Kit Unbuilt H-424:169 Made in USA Pre-Owned $74.99 Buy It Now +$7.95 shipping Benefits charity Sponsored Vintage Revell USS Long Beach Atomic Cruiser Model Kit #05053 1/500 Brand New (1) $50.00 Buy It Now +$12.55 shipping Sponsored VINTAGE Revell 1968 USS LONG BEACH INSTRUCTIONS ONLY Pre-Owned $13.00 Buy It Now We were to launch one for some other ships to shoot at but the missiles were quite old at that point. Since there were more in the mess, I felt I had a greater likelihood of finding good and less good examples to model from. When we arrived in Subic Bay a few days later, they already had t-shirts proclaiming Kitty Hawk 'the best ASW (antisubmarine warfare) platform in the Navy' and others stating 'Kitty Hawk - 1, Victor III 0!'. Three ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Long Beach, after the city of Long Beach, California: .mw-parser-output .dmbox{display:flex;align-items:center;clear:both;margin:0.9em 1em;border-top:1px solid #ccc;border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;padding:0.25em 0.35em;font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output .dmbox>*{flex-shrink:0;margin:0 0.25em}.mw-parser-output .dmbox-body{flex-grow:1;flex-shrink:1;padding:0.1em 0}.mw-parser-output .dmbox-invalid-type{text-align:center}. She served in the US Navy until 1921, then in the US Merchant Marine, and was scrapped in 1924. A comparison with the Ticonderoga class. Considering Arkansas and Long Beach each had essentially the same role in a battle group, I've always felt Long Beach was more capable. I was sitting in my shop when I received a call from the ship's personnel officer and was told I had 10 minutes to pack my gear and get off the ship. Later that evening, the battlegroup had an exercise planned to try to fool any sub monitoring the group. During my 1st tour, the CO, Captain Schrader, had us secure power to it prior to getting underway. On my second tour, I don't remember a lot of problems with it but most of us wouldn't ride in it because we didn't want to get stuck in it. In Electrician's Mate Class A school we learned about motors generators, shipboard distribution and troubleshooting electrical systems. It's often a time when system updates and advancements are applied, as well. This is the story of Master Chief Douglas Healeys Navy journey and the historic and enigmatic ship he kept coming back to. After a few days' steaming, we arrived at Auckland, New Zealand. Free shipping. There were two other prototypes at the site, an A1W (the USS Enterprise prototype) and an S1W (the USS Nautilus prototype). [8], The summer of 1966 was spent in training and orienting midshipmen in the tactics and operations involved in the modern nuclear Navy. A fire was started in the dump area. Even a slight sea would cause Long Beach to roll but you became used to it. A lot of the structural bulkheads were not complete and it was relatively easy to go from one end of the unfinished hull to the other. On 10 April, she joined Atlantic Fleet as flagship for Admiral Robert L. Dennison, Commander in Chief, Atlantic Fleet, for exercises off the coasts of U.S. states North Carolina and Virginia. They were both unique designs, each a kind of 'one-off' which generally doesn't do well for ship designs. I looked around and saw khakis with shiny black shoes and heard I only wanted one at the end of the table where I sit from the admiral in charge of Cruiser-Destroyer Group 1 (we were the flagship). [17] In 1975 the ship changed home ports to Naval Base San Diego, California. For example, USS Arkansas (CGN 41) had a crew of about 450 (comparable to a Belknap class cruiser) but the Ticonderoga class cruisers have a crew of only about 370. During her service, Long Beachhad thehighest bridge structureof any warship smaller than an aircraft carrier. Picture Information. Initially, a Talos missile launcher was mounted to the stern of the ship, but it was later replaced by two box launchers for BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles, with each launching containing four missiles. I remember him serving on USS Bigelow, a Forrest Sherman class destroyer homeported in Mayport, Florida from 1960 to 1965, then at the Navy Supply Corps School in Athens, Georgia from 1965 to 1967. We had picked him up at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean around Labor Day and were to transfer him and his staff to the group relieving us (with the USS Iowa) but he didn't want us to leave as no other ship had the flag spaces we had. Up on the bridge, which was on the 010 level, the ship's rolling motions were amplified dramatically because of the height. By the 1990s, nuclear power was deemed too expensive to use on surface ships smaller than an aircraft carrier in view of defense budget cutbacks after the end of the Cold War. 1988. This was long before the internet and email. The first nuclearpower surface warship in history,USSLong Beach(CGN9)was assigned to the Atlantic Fleet and home ported at Norfolk, Va. AOC and Marjorie Taylor Greene: Two Sides of the Same Coin. That man is Douglas Healey. While there, we noticed the Navy Exchange had t-shirts for sale calling USS Reeves (CG-24) 'the only real cruiser in town.' They would be replaced by the Ticonderoga (CG) and Arleigh Burke (DDG) classes, designed from the ground up with Aegis. The bearing lost all of the oil from its sump and got so hot it damaged the shaft. although the conversion did not push through historically, had Long Beach been placed . Apparently, some of my shipmates went to the base enlisted club and got into a dust-up with some of the local sailors. The USS Long Beach followed in 1961 as the first nuclear-powered cruiser with two reactors. Most naval history buffs can tell you that the USSNautilus(SSN-571) was theworlds first operational nuclear-powered submarine, while USSEnterprise(CVN-65) was thefirst nuclear-powered aircraft carrier yet many may wrongly assume that the carrier was also the first United State Navy surface warship to be powered by nuclear energy. We, Long Beach, offered assistance but were refused. $12.95. In the pub, we met some of the locals, including some of the protesters. 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However, the space was eventually occupied by the 5"/38 caliber gun mounts and the ASROC system. Equipment wise, it had two twin arm mark 26 missile launchers fed by a rotary magazine but carried fewer Standard Missiles (the new name for the updated Terrier missiles) and it had the unmanned five-inch gun mounts like the Spruance class destroyers had. Nimitz is the first in its class and the oldest commissioned aircraft carrier afloat., carrying with it a legacy of innovation, evolution and dominance. This is the first in our series about all things Nuclear. Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier Artist Rendering. It was an interesting time as we did a lot of system testing that is only performed during the acceptance of the ship by the Navy. After I was born, he went back on active duty. 7 June 1975 Change of homeport to San Diego, Ca. One of the swells hit the ship just right and it heeled over to starboard for what seemed like a long time. Collections; Project #ShowUs; . 9 January 1985 Selected Restricted Availability at. Long Beach was decommissioned on 1 May 1995 instead of receiving her third nuclear refueling and proposed upgrade. (U.S. Navy photo by Matt Hildreth courtesy of Huntington Ingalls Industries/Released). USS Bainbridge DLGN-25/CGN-25 U S Navy Jacket Patch. O USS Long Beach (CLGN-160/CGN-160/CGN-9) foi um cruzador de propulso nuclear da marinha de guerra dos Estados Unidos. 7 November 1974 Sixth West Pacific deployment. A single ship class, Long Beach was the first nuclear-powered surface warship and the last of US Navy traditional cruiser hulls (all subsequent cruisers were mostly scaled-up destroyer hulls). Back then, the crew remained living on the ship or were moved onto a living barge but remained in the industrial area. We didn't go to New Zealand and our port visit in Australia was the city of Perth in the western part of the country. In 1968, the ship was redeployed to the Gulf of Tonkin, shooting down a MiG 21 jet fighter near Vinh, with a RIM-8 Talos missile on 23 May 1968,[13][14] at a range of 65 miles (105km). He regularly writes about military hardware, and is the author of several books on military headgear includingA Gallery of Military Headdress, which is available on Amazon.com. [18] On 19 October 1987, she participated in Kuwaiti tanker reflagging and provided anti-aircraft cover during Operation Nimble Archer. He died while on active duty during this tour. Commissioned in 1961, the USS Long Beach was the world's first nuclear powered cruiser. 11 August 1969 Third West Pacific deployment. Long Beach, CA 8/30/1968 CREDIT: Neil Leifer Vietnam War: View of people on USS New Jersey Iowa-class battleship during Family Day at Long Beach Naval Shipyard. This meant I wore the Chief's uniform for eleven months before getting the pay of a Chief. 12, 2022) Sailors aboard USS Nimitz (CVN 68) assemble on the flight deck and form a human 100 to commemorate the centennial of the aircraft carrier. 25 July 1987 12th West Pacific deployment. USS Long Beach (CLGN-160/CGN-160/CGN-9) is the single vessel of the Long Beach class nuclear powered guided missile cruiser built by the USN during the late 1950's and into the early 1960's, most recognizable by her large and blocky superstructure she can be considered as the last true cruiser of the US Navy as ever since then US cruiser classes have normally been based on and/or are enlarged . They had no idea where we were and as we gradually turned on different radars, they finally came flying right down to where we were. The first place I sailed to after joining Long Beach was Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (PSNS) in Washington. 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