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The Long Beach Naval Shipyard (Long Beach NSY or LBNSY), which closed in 1997, was located on Terminal Island between the city of Long Beach and the San Pedro district of Los Angeles, approximately 23 miles south of the Los Angeles International Airport. [1] The primary role of NSY Long Beach at the time of its closure was overhaul and ...
3 officers, 20 men. Titan, better known by its former nickname Herman the German (US Navy designation YD-171 ), is a large floating crane currently serving in the Panama Canal performing heavy lifts for lock maintenance. Prior to its move to Panama in 1996, the crane was based at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard from the end of World War II until ...
USS Long Beach (CLGN-160/CGN-160/CGN-9) was a nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser in the United States Navy and the world's first nuclear-powered surface combatant. [3] She was the third Navy ship named after the city of Long Beach, California . She was the sole member of the Long Beach -class, and the last cruiser built for the United ...
USS Constellation (CV-64) was a Kitty Hawk -class supercarrier and the third ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the "new constellation of stars" on the flag of the United States. One of the fastest ships in the Navy, as proven by her victory during a battlegroup race held in 1985, she was nicknamed "Connie" by her crew and ...
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.
On 24 February 1967, Yorktown entered the Long Beach Naval Shipyard for a seven-month overhaul. She completed repairs early in October and, after refresher training, resumed normal west coast operations for most of what remained of 1967. On 28 December, she stood out of Long Beach, bound for her last tour of duty in the western Pacific.
With the end of World War II the shipyard was again renamed on 30 November 1945 to Terminal Island Naval Shipyard and in March 1948 renamed to Long Beach Naval Shipyard (NSY) On 15 November 1946, the adjoining Naval Station Long Beach was established. Small Craft Training Center USS Snowbell minesweeper used for training
Harpoon missiles, Phalanx CIWS. USS Sterett (DLG/CG-31) was a Belknap -class destroyer leader / cruiser. She was the third ship to be named for Master Commandant Andrew Sterett (1778–1807), who served during the Quasi-War with France and the Barbary Wars. She was launched as DLG-31, a frigate, and reclassified a cruiser (CG) on 30 June 1975.