Photo #: NH 98972
USS Little Rock (CLG-4)
At the New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard, Camden, New
Jersey, 19 December 1959, while completing conversion to a guided
missile ship.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 98973
USS Little Rock (CLG-4)
View amidships on the port side, looking forward, taken at the
New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard, Camden, New Jersey,
19 December 1959, while she was completing conversion to a guided
missile ship.
Note details of the ship's forward superstructure, smokestack,
boat davit and stowage racks for inflatable life rafts.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 98974
USS Little Rock (CLG-4)
View looking forward along the port side, from off the after
superstructure, 19 December 1959. Taken at the New York Shipbuilding
Corporation shipyard, Camden, New Jersey, while she was completing
conversion to a guided missile ship.
Note SPG-49 guidance radars for Little Rock's "Talos"
missile system (in lower right) and the very large diamond-shaped
antenna for her SPS-2 height-finding search radar (atop the after
superstructure).
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 98975
USS Little Rock (CLG-4)
At the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvania, in December
1960, probably while undergoing an inclining experiment.
Note scaffolding around her masts.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 98976
USS Little Rock (CLG-4)
View amidships on the starboard side, taken the Philadelphia
Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvania, in December 1960, probably while
she was undergoing an inclining experiment.
Note boat stowage and handling arrangements. Boats appear to
include a motor whaleboat, two personnel boats and a utility
boat.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 98977
USS Little Rock (CLG-4)
View of the ship's after superstructure, from starboard, while
she was undergoing an inclining experiment at the Norfolk Naval
Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia, 11 January 1963.
The large round antenna for her newly-installed SPS-30 radar
is in the top center of the image.
Ship in the background appears to be USS Diamond Head
(AE-19).
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 98978
USS Little Rock (CLG-4)
View of the ship's forward superstructure, taken while she was
undergoing an inclining experiment at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard,
Portsmouth, Virginia, 28 September 1966.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 98979
USS Little Rock (CLG-4)
View of the ship's foredeck area, taken while she was undergoing
an inclining experiment at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth,
Virginia, 28 September 1966.
Note her twin 5"/38 gun mount and triple 6"/47 gun
turret, with anchor-handling gear and a large communications
antenna beyond.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 98980
USS Little Rock (CLG-4)
View amidships, from port, taken while the ship was undergoing
an inclining experiment at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth,
Virginia, 28 September 1966.
Note motor whaleboat suspended from the sliding davit, with a
utility boat stowed immediately aft.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 98981
USS Little Rock (CLG-4)
View of the ship's after superstructure, from starboard, taken
while the ship was undergoing an inclining experiment at the
Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia, 28 September 1966.
Note SPG-49 (at left & left center) and SPW-2 (at top center)
guidance radars for her "Talos" missile system, and
inflatable life rafts stowed around the deckhouse sides.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 98982
USS Little Rock (CLG-4)
Undergoing an inclining experiment at the Boston Naval Shipyard,
Massachusetts, 28 March 1971.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 98983
USS Little Rock (CLG-4)
View on the ship's foredeck, looking aft on the starboard side,
while she was undergoing an inclining experiment, at the Boston
Naval Shipyard, Massachusetts, on 11 December 1972.
Note ceremonial flagstand by the ship's 6"/47 gun turret.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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