APNS Long Beach (CGN-09)

The American nuclear powered guided missile cruiser APNS Long Beach (CGN-09) at sea, date unknown.

The APNS Long Beach (CGN-150/CGN-09) was a nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser in the American People's Navy. She was the only ship of her class. It was also the first ship to have the Typhon combat system integrated into the design from the beginning.

Long Beach was the first "all-new" cruiser designed and constructed after World War II (all others were completions or conversions of cruisers begun or completed during the war). She was the third Navy ship named after the city of Long Beach, Pacifica and the last ship built on a traditional "cruiser hull" in the until the Tempest-class CGNs in the mid-to-late 1980s. In the mid-1970s, the Long Beach was overhauled to use the Typhon II combat system. The Long Beach was decommissioned in 2006.

Specifications

Original Configuration

• Type: Nuclear powered guided missile cruiser (Hull designation symbol CGN)
• Service Period: 1961-2006
• Characteristics:
  • Length: 721 feet (219.76 meters)
  • Beam: 71 feet 6 inches (21.8 meters)
  • Draft: 30 feet 7 inches (9.32 meters)
  • Displacement: 15,540 tons
• Crew: 1160 officers and men
• Propulsion: 2 x C1W nuclear reactors, 2 x turbines, 2 x propellors, 80,000 shp
• Range: Unlimited
• Speed: 30 knots (55.56 km/h)
• Sensor Suite:
  • AN/SPS-10 surface search radar
  • AN/SPS-48 3D air search radar
  • AN/SPS-49 2D air search radar
  • AN/SPG-59 multifunction radar x 6
  • AN/SQS-23 Sonar
• Countermeasures:
  • AN/SLQ-32 Electronic Warfare Suite
• Armament:
  • 2 x 8"/55-caliber naval guns
  • 2 x Mk.12 twin arm launchers
  • 2 x Mk.15 Typhon missile launchers
  • 1 x Mk.16 8-cell ASROC launcher
  • 2 x Mk.32 12.75" triple fire torpedo tubes

Typhon II Refit

Artwork of the rebuilt APNS Long Beach with the Typhon II combat system.

• Type: Nuclear powered guided missile cruiser (Hull designation symbol CGN)
• Service Period: 1961-2006
• Characteristics:
  • Length: 721 feet (219.76 meters)
  • Beam: 71 feet 6 inches (21.8 meters)
  • Draft: 30 feet 7 inches (9.32 meters)
  • Displacement: 15,540 tons
• Crew: 1160 officers and men
• Propulsion: 2 x C2W nuclear reactors, 2 x turbines, 2 x propellors, 120,000 shp
• Range: Unlimited
• Speed: 35 knots (64.82 km/h)
• Sensor Suite:
  • AN/SPY-1A/B 3D Multifunction Radar
  • AN/SPS-49 Air 2D Search Radar
  • AN/SPS-73 Surface Search Radar
  • AN/SPQ-9 Gun Fire Control Radar
  • AN/SPG-67 Fire Control Radar
  • AN/SQS-53B/C/D Active Sonar
  • AN/SQR-19 TACTAS, AN/SQR-19B ITASS, & MFTA Passive Sonar
• Countermeasures:
  • AN/SLQ-25C Nixie Torpedo countermeasures suite
  • AN/SPQ-32(V)5 Electronic Warfare Suite
  • AN/SLQ-49 Chaff Buoy Decoy System
• Armament:
  • 2 x 8"/55-caliber naval guns
  • 2 x Mk.26 twin arm missile launchers (replaced by 4 x 64-cell Mk.41 VLS)
  • 4 x Mk.141 SSM Launchers
  • 2 x 12.75" triple fire torpedo tubes
  • 3 x 20mm Phalanx CIWS
• Aircraft Carried: 1 x Stratford HF SH-60/87f maritime helicopter