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Some 400 miles north of Long Beach, critics say there are many reasons to be skeptical. The Navy has made similar safety claims about the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco.
The name of this facility was changed to Terminal Island Naval Shipyard on 30 November 1945. [2] On 15 November 1946, the adjoining Naval Station Long Beach was established. [7] The shipyard was renamed Long Beach Naval Shipyard (NSY) in March 1948. [2]
"Herman the German" (YD-171) at Long Beach Navy Yard in 1957 "Herman the German" was seized as a war prize following the end of World War II. "Herman" was dismantled and transported across the Atlantic through the Panama Canal to Long Beach, where it subsequently served at the Long Beach Navy Yard from 1946 (following its reassembly) to 1994 (when the shipyard was closed).
Naval Operating Base Terminal Island, (NOB Terminal Island) was United States Navy base founded on 25 September 1941 to support the World War II efforts in the Pacific War. Naval Operating Base Terminal Island was founded by combining Naval Facilities in cities of San Pedro, Long Beach and Wilmington, California under one command.
A Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF) is a facility owned by the United States Navy as a holding facility for decommissioned naval vessels, pending determination of their final fate. All ships in these facilities are inactive, but some are still on the Naval Vessel Register (NVR), while others have been struck from the register.
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 ...
The Long Beach Naval Shipyard, decommissioned in 1997, occupied roughly half of the island. Sea Launch maintains docking facilities on the mole that was part of the naval station. Aerospace company SpaceX is initially leasing 12.4 acres (5.0 ha) from the Port of Los Angeles on the island at Berth 240. They will refurbish five buildings and ...
The first bridge linking the eastern end of Terminal Island and Long Beach across the Back Channel was an unnamed "temporary" pontoon bridge constructed during World War II to accommodate traffic resulting from the expansion of the Long Beach Naval Shipyard. [18] In 1968, it was replaced by the Gerald Desmond Bridge.