Members of the USS Long Beach CGN-9 Association, Inc. will gather to celebrate the 21st Annual Reunion, from Monday, September 8, through Sunday, September 14, 2014. The location is the Hilton St. Louis Airport, 10330 Natural Bridge Road, St. Louis, MO. The room rate is $89 per night inclusive of all taxes and breakfast for two each day. Call 314-426-5500 to place a reservation, and be sure to identify yourself as member of the USS Long Beach CGN-9 Reunion.
The Association website includes the reunion packet. Complete the registration online and pay with your credit card through PayPal.
Members will receive a St. Louis reunion packet note from Don Shade. Contact him at 866-352-2469 or email LBCGN9@aol.com.
USS Long Beach (CLGN-160/CGN-160/CGN-9) was a nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser in the United States Navy. She was the only ship of her class.
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, CA, and the last ship built on a traditional “cruiser hull” in the U.S. Navy. All subsequent cruisers were built on scaled-up destroyer hulls. This led to the slogan she carried in her later years: “The Only Real Cruiser.”
The Long Beach was decommissioned in 1995 and will be scrapped at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.