USS California (CGN-36)
The USS California ( DLGN-36/CGN-36 ) was a nuclear cruiser and lead ship of the California class.
History
The California was in 1970 at Newport News Shipbuilding laid the keel and made in 1974 with the U.S. Navy in service. Your first mission trip led the ship also called Golden Grizzly 1976-77 to the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean. In the summer of 1977, the ship participated in the parade for the 25th Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in Portsmouth.
The end of 1979 interrupted the California a ride in the Mediterranean and ran a consisting only of nuclear ships Task Force (USS Nimitz (CVN -68) and USS Texas ( CGN -39) ) in the Persian Gulf, where the group during the hostage crisis in Tehran to May 1980 remained.
As of April 1981, California led maneuvers in the Indian Ocean, they drove off from the west. Later she left him eastwards and thus conducted a world tour by the first of a nuclear -powered warship since Operation Sea Orbit 1964. According to an overhaul of the California moved its home port in 1983 in the Pacific. After riding with the USS Constellation ( CV-64 ) in the Indian Ocean the ship circumnavigated the globe in 1987 one more time. The following year the California sailed the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf, where they the last convoy protected in December as part of Operation Earnest Will.
1990 was again an overhaul and refilling of the reactor, which was held in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. This lasted until the beginning of 1993, so she spent the rest of the Second Gulf War in the yard. The first trip of California after the overhaul took place from June 1994 and led them to the USS Kitty Hawk (CV -63 ) in the Western Pacific, for practice using the Self-Defense Forces and the Navy of the Republic of Korea. After another short overhaul it served again in the Western Pacific. This time with the USS Carl Vinson, where she participated in Operation Southern Watch and Operation Desert Strike. The last ride of California took place from January 1998, she served the fight against drug trafficking in the Eastern Pacific and the Caribbean.
The ship was made on 28 August 1998 and decommissioned in 2001 supplied the Ship - Submarine Recycling Program at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. So it was the last nuclear cruiser of the U.S. Navy, which has been decommissioned.