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A fifth Virginia class vessel was initially planned but then cancelled. [citation needed] Ultimately, these nuclear-powered cruisers would prove to be too costly to maintain, [3] and they would all be retired between 1993 and 1999. The US Navy currently has the largest fleet of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers [4] and nuclear-powered submarines.
5 July 1961 – Long Beach underway for the first time using her own nuclear power. [18] 9 September 1961 – Long Beach is commissioned as the first nuclear-powered surface vessel at the Boston Naval Shipyard. [8] 2 October 1961 – Change of Home port to Norfolk, Virginia. 6 August 1963 – First deployment to the Mediterranean. [8]
Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, (1900–1986), of the United States Navy, known as "father of the nuclear navy" [10] [11] [12] was an electrical engineer by training, and was the primary architect who implemented this daring concept, and believed that it was the natural next phase for the way military vessels could be propelled and powered.
The second California-class cruiser, South Carolina (CGN-37), was the fifth nuclear-powered cruiser in the US Navy. Only two ships of the class were built, California and South Carolina, and both were decommissioned in late 1999. These ships were followed on by the four nuclear-powered cruisers of the Virginia class. These cruisers were named ...
As of 2021, it is the only nuclear-powered merchant ship in service. [citation needed] Civilian nuclear ships suffer from the costs of specialized infrastructure. The Savannah was expensive to operate since it was the only vessel using its specialized nuclear shore staff and servicing facility. A larger fleet could share fixed costs among more ...
USS Nevada and Mobile at Long Beach Naval Shipyard, 1990. Long Beach NSY was evaluated under every round of Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) for possible closure since the inception of the BRAC process in 1988. [9] In 1993, California congressmen Horn and Rohrabacher cited the military value of the shipyard [10] in a successful attempt to ...
Aerial view of the Newport News shipyard in 1994. Visible in the drydocks are USS Long Beach and USNS Gilliland. Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is the sole designer, builder, and refueler of aircraft carriers and one of two providers of submarines for the United States Navy.
The last ship to be assigned a hull number in the Heavy and Light Cruiser sequence would be the 1950s era nuclear powered Long Beach, though this ship would be assigned another number and designation under the guided missile cruiser hull classification before launch. Long Beach class (CLGN/CGN-160) Long Beach, completed as CGN-9 (1961)