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Long Beach was built to escort the Navy's new nuclear carriers, which conventional escorts couldn't keep pace with on long deployments. Two C1W reactors...
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Long Beach was built to escort the Navy's new nuclear carriers, which conventional escorts couldn't keep pace with on long deployments. Two C1W reactors...
Few US Navy warships matched the technological ambitions of the early Cold War era like the USS Long Beach. She combined nuclear endurance and...
USS Long Beach commissioned in 1961 as the first nuclear-powered surface warship, and she looked like nothing else afloat — a slab-sided superstructure built...
USS Long Beach entered service as the world’s first nuclear-powered surface warship and sailed around the world without refueling. Decades later, the stripped, defueled...