&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:USS_Bainbridge_(DLGN-25)_underway_at_sea_on_20_September_1962_(NH_98104).jpg) USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25) in September 1962.
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Bainbridge |
| Namesake | William Bainbridge |
| Ordered | 1 September 1958 |
| Builder | Bethlehem Steel, Quincy, Massachusetts |
| Laid down | 5 May 1959 |
| Launched | 15 April 1961 |
| Sponsored by | Susan Bainbridge Goodale |
| Acquired | 28 September 1962 |
| Commissioned | 6 October 1962 |
| Decommissioned | 13 September 1996 |
| Stricken | 13 September 1996 |
| Motto | "Mobility Endurance Versatility" |
| Fate | Recycled 30 October 1999 |
| Notes | Originally designated destroyer, re-designated Cruiser |
| Badge | &sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:USS_Bainbridge_(CGN-25)_crest_1991.png) |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Heavily modified nuclear version of the Leahy-class cruiser |
| Displacement | 9100 tons |
| Length | 565 ft (172 m)[1] |
| Beam | 57.75 ft (17.60 m)[1] |
| Draft | 29 ft (8.8 m) (maximum)[1] |
| Propulsion | 60,000 shp; 2 G.E. Reactors (D2G), Geared Turbines, 2 screws |
| Speed | 34 kn (63 km/h; 39 mph) |
| Range | Unlimited |
| Complement | 556 (43 Officers, 513 enlisted)[2] |
| Sensors and processing systems | |
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USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25/CGN-25) was a nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser in the United States Navy, the only ship of her class. Named in honor of Commodore William Bainbridge, she was the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name. With her original hull classification symbol of DLGN (nuclear-powered guided missile destroyer leader, called a "frigate" at the time), she was the first nuclear-powered destroyer-type ship in the US Navy, and shared her name with the lead ship of the first US Navy destroyer class, the Bainbridge-class destroyers.
Bainbridge was re-designated as a guided missile cruiser in 1975. She was commissioned in 1962, and served for over 30 years in the Atlantic, Pacific, Mediterranean, and Middle East before being decommissioned in 1996.
- ^ a b c "USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25/CGN-25)". navsource.org. 31 December 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
- ^ Naval Vessel Register
- ^ a b c d e Blackman, Raymond V. B. Jane's Fighting Ships (1970/71) p.430
- ^ Polmar, Norman "The U.S. Navy: Shipboard Radars" United States Naval Institute Proceedings December 1978 p.144