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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