U.S.S. Little Rock
CLG-4
1973
(Spider Navy SN-3-01)
- Class: Galveston - 3 guided missile light cruisers of 1957
- Displacement: 10,670 tons standard; 15,205 tons full load
- Dimensions: 610'1" (oa) x 66'4" x 25'
- Machinery: 4-shaft geared turbines, SHP 100,000 = 33 knots
- Armament: 3-6"/47 (1x3), 2-5"/38 (1x2)
- Missiles: 1 twin Talos missile launcher
- Complement: 1,395
- Builder: Cramp Shipbuilding Co, Philadelphia, PA
- Keel Laid: 6 Mar 1943
- Launched: 27 Aug 1944
- Commissioned: 17 Jun 1945 / 3 Jun 1960
- Decommissioned: 24 Jun 1949 / 22 Nov 1976
- Notes: Commissioned as CL-92, Little Rock was completed too late for WWII service. Reclassified as CLG-4 on 23 May 1957 and converted to a guided missile cruiser at New York Shipbuilding Corp, Camden, NJ. After conversion, she served extensively in the Mediterranean, often as the Sixth Fleet flagship. Reclassified CG-4 1 Jul 1975. Plans for refit cancelled after a significant boiler engineering casualty, she was decommissioned in 1976 and became a museum ship at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park, Buffalo, New York in 1977.
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