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Photo #: NH 51358

USS Long Beach
(CGN-9)

Attendees at the ship's launching, at the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 14 July 1959. Those present are (from left to right):
Captain Francis A. Burke, Chaplain, First Naval District;
Vice Admiral Wallace M. Beakley, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations;
Captain Fred L. Ruhlman, Commandant, Boston Naval Shipyard;
Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover;
Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, Chief of Naval Operations;
Mrs. Craig Hosmer, ship's Sponsor;
Rear Admiral Ralph K. James, Chief, Bureau of Ships;
Rear Admiral Carl F. Espe, Commandant, First Naval District; and
Captain Edgar H. Batcheller, Supervisor of Shipbuilding at the Quincy shipyard.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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Image posted 12 July 2005