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The shipyard was renamed Long Beach Naval Shipyard (NSY) in March 1948. [2] During World War II, the naval dry docks provided routine and battle damage repairs to a parade of tankers, cargo ships, troop transports, destroyers, and cruisers. Peak employment of 16,091 civilian employees was reached in August 1945. [2]
The initial contamination at the former Long Beach shipyard, where vessels used to dock for repair and maintenance, occurred from the 1940s to the 1960s, when workers were disposing of toxic waste ...
List of shipwrecks: 3 March 2024 Ship State Description Fukuei Maru No. 8 Japan: The 56-metre (183 ft 9 in) tuna boat ran aground, apparently at least partly sunk, on Kozushima Island in the group of Izu Islands south of Tokyo. One crewman died, the rest of the crew were rescued by Japanese Coast Guard helicopters. [26] [27]
The deployment lasted until 6 June 1963, at which time the carrier set a course back to Long Beach. Yorktown arrived back in her home port on 18 June 1963 and resumed normal operations until the fall, then went into drydock at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard facility at Long Beach Ca. The Yorktown came out of yard in the spring of 1964.
New photos show the damage to a US Navy aircraft carrier sustained in a collision with a merchant ship last week. The warship USS Harry S. Truman docked at a US naval facility in Souda Bay, Greece ...
Naval Operating Base Terminal Island was founded by combining Naval Facilities in cities of San Pedro, Long Beach and Wilmington, California under one command. Much of the base was on the man-made Terminal Island, and harbor in San Pedro Bay. The harbor was made through the construction of a large breakwater system. [1] [2]
In order to fully capture the essence of 2024, and to honor the power of photography, we needed to consider multiple categories and forms of importance. The ten photos below are the result of many ...
USS Long Beach, and USS Macdonough (far right), under construction at Fore River Shipyard, July 1959. Long Beach was originally ordered as CLGN-160. She was reclassified CGN-160 in early 1957, but was again reclassified as CGN-9 on 1 July 1957. Her keel was laid down on 2 December 1957 by Bethlehem Steel Co., Fore River Shipyard, Quincy ...