USS Little Rock (CL-92)

Cramp Shipbuilding, Philadelphia

10,670 ts

185.95 m

1255

4 boilers, turbines 4, 100,000 shaft horsepower

32.5 kn

The USS Little Rock ( CL-92/CLG-4/CG-4 ) was a light cruiser of the Cleveland class of the United States Navy.

The USS Little Rock since June 1977, a museum ship and as such the only remaining ship of her class of ship.

Technology

For detailed information see the article on the ship class: → Cleveland - class

History

Construction

The light cruiser was placed at the Cramp Shipbuilding shipyard in Philadelphia on March 6, 1943 in Kiel and had its launch on 27 August 1944. Went into service on 17 June 1945. USS Little Rock was in after the city of Little Rock the U.S. state of Arkansas named.

Conversion

On 24 June 1949, the ship was first taken out of service. In the 1950s, it was rebuilt in the New York Shipbuilding shipyard to a guided missile cruiser of the Galveston class. She received instead of the aft 152 mm guns have a twin launcher for radar-guided anti-aircraft missiles and instead of the second heavy front turret larger bridge structures with rod spaces in order to use it as a flagship can. Even during the reconstruction the ship on May 23, 1957, reclassified to CLG -4. The conversion was completed on 19 December 1959, and on June 3, 1960, the recent entry into service. On 1 July 1975, Little Rock was reclassified again and received the designation CG- fourth

Museum ship

The ship was found on November 22, 1976 permanently withdrawn from service, and purchased by the city of Buffalo / New York 1977. Since June 1, 1977, the USS Little Rock (DD -537 ) and the submarine USS Croaker (SS -246 ) is located next to the destroyer USS The Sullivans as a museum ship in the " Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park ' on the shores of Lake Erie.