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  Long Beach Naval Shipyard (NSY)
The Long Beach NSY was equipped with facilities and skills to perform all non-nuclear structural, sheetmetal, boiler, rigging, electronics, electrical, lagging, ordnance, sandblasting, welding, machining, woodworking, painting, pipe fitting, and other work pertaining to the overhaul and repair of surface ships.
Long Beach Naval Shipyard had a modernization and military construction program to meet the critical need to improve waterfront capabilities and facilities and to provide sufficient flexibility to meet workload changes and technological advances required for fleet support.
In 1994 Long Beach employed approximately 3,000 civilian employees, approximately 800 MWR and Navy Exchange personnel, and was considered a major industry in the local area.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/long_beach_nsy.htm   (1018 words)

  
 Long Beach Naval Shipyard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Long Beach Naval Shipyard, which closed in 1997, was located at Terminal Island between the cities of Long Beach and San Pedro and approximately 23 miles south of the Los Angeles International Airport.
To meet its mobilization mission assignment the shipyard was equipped with facilities and skills capable of performing all structural, sheet metal, boiler, rigging, electronics, electrical, insulating, ordnance, sandblasting, welding, machining, woodworking, painting, pipe fitting, and other work incidental to the overhaul and repair of surface ships.
The Long Beach NSY was placed in an inactive status on June 1st 1950.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/long_beach_naval_shipyard   (502 words)

  
 THE LONG BEACH NAVAL SHIPYARD -- HON. STEPHEN HORN (Extension of Remarks - March 24, 1993)
Long Beach and the surrounding communities are staggering under an unemployment rate of more than 10 percent, with not a great deal of hope for the immediate future.
The Long Beach Naval Station is already slated for closure in 1996 and it is clearly the Navy's intention to remove itself from the San Francisco Bay area.
Long Beach is home to drydock No. 1, the only drydock south of Washington State able to drydock aircraft carriers, large amphibious ships, and the largest class of fleet oilers.
www.fas.org /man/company/shipyard/930324-lbnsy.htm   (2406 words)

  
 Portsmouth Herald Local News: A portrait of a base closing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Officials continue to lobby on behalf of Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, which is facing potential closure under the current round of the base realignment and closure process.
Since the closure, Long Beach has worked extremely hard to bring new businesses to the area, and now, nearly 12 years later, a large retail center, a high school, transitional housing for the homeless, and a technology center have been built where Navy housing and training buildings once stood.
Long Beach was known for more than half a century as a Navy town.
www.seacoastonline.com /news/03062005/news/68328.htm   (995 words)

  
 USS Missouri (BB-63) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She was overhauled at Norfolk Naval Shipyard from 23 September 1949 to 17 January 1950.
She departed 8 June on a midshipman training cruise, returned to Norfolk 4 August, and was overhauled in Norfolk Naval Shipyard 20 November to 2 April 1954.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the lack of a perceived threat against the United States came drastic cuts to the defense budget, and the high cost of maintaining battleships as part of the active fleet was deemed an ineffective expenditure.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Missouri_(BB-63)   (5279 words)

  
 Long Beach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Long Beach Naval Shipyard was in Long Beach, Calif.
Long Beach Island, New Jersey, United States of America
Long Beach Township, New Jersey, United States of America
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Long_Beach   (157 words)

  
 EPA: Federal Register: Record of Decision For The Disposal and Reuse of Naval Station Long Beach and Long Beach Naval ...
In deciding to dispose of the Naval Station and the Naval Shipyard in a manner consistent with the LRA's reuse plans, Navy has determined that the LRA Reuse Alternative will meet the goals of achieving local economic redevelopment and creating new jobs, while ensuring land uses that are generally compatible with adjacent property.
Background The Naval Station and the Naval Shipyard are bounded on the north and east by the Port of Long Beach (Port), on the west by the Port of Los Angeles, and on the south by San Pedro Bay.
Conclusion The LRA's proposed reuse of the Naval Station and the Naval Shipyard, reflected in the combined LRA reuse plans and embodied in the LRA Reuse Alternative, is consistent with the requirements of the FPMR and Section 174.4 of the DoD Rule.
www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/1998/June/Day-03/i14732.htm   (6389 words)

  
 ICSC Publications SCTFeb03   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Long Beach Plaza, an 800,000-square-foot, enclosed regional mall project built in the 1970s, never prospered and was itself a blight on the area for most of its existence.
Long Beach officials provided CityPlace a $17 million subsidy for infrastructure improvements that included the remodeling of a parking garage that had blocked access through the streets, Trottier said.
Kojian noted that Long Beach officials are hoping the project will lure visitors who up to now have patronized the tony downtowns of such communities as the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica and Old Town Pasadena, which are both within a two-mile radius of the city.
www.icsc.org /srch/sct/sct0303/page19.html   (1058 words)

  
 EPA: Federal Register: >From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
Long Beach NSY is located in Long Island Beach Harbor, immediately east of Long Beach Naval Station, and includes approximately 259 acres of real estate.
The City of Long Beach was designated as the LRA by the Secretary of Defense.
Alternative 2, Two-pier Shipyard, would be identical to the proposed action except that the shipyard area would be expanded to 32 acres and contain 2 piers and some additional buildings.
www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/1996/September/Day-04/pr-16921.html   (931 words)

  
 Historic California Posts: Naval Operating Base, Long Beach
Also in that year the name of the base was changed to Naval Operating Base, Long Beach and, for decades to come, remained one of the Navy's most important facilities on the west coast.
The NAVHOSP was transferred to the City Of Long Beach in May 97.
The Port of Long Beach planned to build and to lease to COSCO a $200 million container terminal on 145 acres of former Navy property, using a 10-year lease with additional five-year options.
www.militarymuseum.org /NOBLongBeach.html   (2057 words)

  
 Naval Station (NS) Long Beach
Long Beach Naval Complex (LBNC) included Naval Shipyard (NSY) Long Beach and its four associated housing areas (Los Alamitos, Palos Verdes, San Pedro, and Whites Point), Naval Station (NS) Long Beach and its two associated housing areas (Savannah/Cabrillo and Taper Avenue), and Hospital (NAVHOSP) Long Beach.
NS and NSY are located on the south side of Terminal Island within the boundaries of the cities of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
Los Alamitos housing is located east of Orange County in the City of Los Alamitos, and Savannah/Cabrillo housing is located in the northeast corner of the City of Long Beach.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/long_beach.htm   (595 words)

  
 USN Ships--USS Perkins (DD-877) -- Inclining Experiment Views
View amidships, taken while the ship was undergoing an inclining experiment at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, California, on 15 November 1962, at the conclusion of her FRAM II modernization.
Plan view aft, taken while the ship was undergoing an inclining experiment at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, California, on 15 November 1962, at the conclusion of her FRAM II modernization.
View of the ship's starboard quarter, taken while she was undergoing an inclining experiment at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, California, on 15 November 1962, at the conclusion of her FRAM II modernization.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-p/dd877-t.htm   (754 words)

  
 From Dictionary of American Fighting Ships
She arrived at Long Beach on 8 December and was assigned to Mine Division 73, Mine Squadron 7.
She was underway on 8 March and sailed to the naval electronics laboratory at San Diego for tests and evaluations of her newly installed equipment.
On 1 May, she entered the Long Beach Naval Shipyard for a restricted availability, during which all of her experimental equipment was removed, thus ending her research and development efforts.
www.hazegray.org /danfs/mine/mso508.htm   (1837 words)

  
 HistoryLink Essay: Missouri, U.S.S.
In 1984, she was towed to the Long Beach (California) Naval Yard, renovated and fitted with Tomahawk cruise missiles, and in 1986 reactivated.
At the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, some guns were removed, replaced by 32 nuclear-tipped Tomahawk cruise missiles, 16 Harpoon anti-ship missiles and four Vulcan Phalanx Gatling Guns that launch a wall of bullets to stop enemy missiles.
She was subsequently towed to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, arriving without fanfare on Sunday, April 12, 1992.
www.historylink.org /essays/output.cfm?file_id=5537   (4511 words)

  
 RAB Minutes -- Southwest Division, NAVFACENGCOM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Long Beach Naval Complex held it's second community meeting to discuss the Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) on 15 March 1994 at 7:00 P.M. in the Officer's Club, Naval Station Long Beach.
Captain B. Janov, Commander for the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, and Captain I.J. Jones, Commanding Officer for the Naval Station Long Beach, welcomed the audience and explained the mission and role of each command.
The next RAB community meeting is scheduled for Thursday, 14 April 1994, at 7:00 P.M. in the Naval Station Long Beach Officer's Club.
www.efdsw.navfac.navy.mil /environmental/Pages/nslbm2.htm   (218 words)

  
 Los Angeles Business Journal: Proposals surface for future shipyard uses - Long Beach Naval Shipyard
A private shipyard, expansion of the Port of Long Beach or maybe a football stadium - those are some of the possible uses of the 350-acre Long Beach Naval Shipyard if the facility is indeed closed, according to elected officials in Long Beach and local business people.
The most often-mentioned use for the facility would be converting it to a private shipyard and perhaps the most exotic possibility was building a professional football stadium on the land.
After converting the shipyard to a private facility, the most often-mention future use is expansion of the adjacent Port of Long Beach, which is booming with activity.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m5072/is_n27_v17/ai_17384420   (839 words)

  
 Long Beach Asbestos Cancer Attorney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
It is really the biggest collection of the links and other information related to "long beach asbestos cancer attorney".
Long Beach · Long Beach Naval Yard · Southern California...
...law firm in Long Beach, CA, specializing in litigation for victims of exposure to toxins.
www.allwebdirectories.com /ww/la/long-beach-asbestos-cancer-attorney.html   (201 words)

  
 Long Beach Naval Shipyard - Early, Ludwick, Sweeney and Strauss   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Long Beach Naval Shipyard - Early, Ludwick, Sweeney and Strauss
Long Beach Naval Shipyard used to be known as Terminal Island Shipyard because of its location on Terminal Island between the cities of Long Beach and San Pedro in California.
If you were exposed to asbestos at Long Beach Naval Shipyard, please contact us.
www.elslaw.com /jobsites_ca_longbeach.htm   (562 words)

  
 Long Beach Naval Base
The buildings on the former naval station site are being removed to make way for a cargo terminal, much to the dismay of preservationists who are trying to save some of the buildings.
Richard Coke: A new resident of Long Beach...it is obvious even to me, from what I have read in the papers and what I've read in the papers berore I came to Long Beach, that the whole intent here is to get this COSCO company in once the EIR is passed.
I was the last contractor for the [Long Beach] Naval Shipyard - 32 years - retired last September 30 and I am a certified instructor at the college level of marine technology.
home.compuall.net /~dianerush/navalbase.html   (3404 words)

  
 District Profile: California -- 38th District
Long Beach, along the coast, is the world's second-largest port and by far the largest city in the district with 429,000 residents.
In the older homes of Long Beach are the descendants of the fishermen and sailors of many European nationalities who settled here.
The southwestern side of Long Beach suffered in the April 1992 riots that ripped through the Los Angeles area.
www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1996/states/CA/CA38.shtml   (508 words)

  
 Red Cross Volunteers - Vietnam Babylift
For a long, long time it seemed not many people were interested and it seemed difficult to locate information, even from the Red Cross, with whom I had volunteer.
Once the children arrived at the Gym, they were examined by Naval Doctors and Nurses, then they were assigned to a Volunteer for further care during the duration of their stay at the Base.
I assisted in the transporting of the chldren from the Naval Air Station at Los Alamitos to the Naval Station in Long Beach, and I helped with getting the children cleaned up, fed and settled for their brief stay at the Base.
www.adoptvietnam.org /adoption/babylift-richardson.html   (1490 words)

  
 Commander, Long Beach Naval Complex   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In 1970, Lambert commanded the Naval Technical Training School at Millington, TN while the Navy waited for his final career post to open up in California.
This included the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, Long Beach Naval Operating Base, Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station, Naval Air Station Los Alamitos, and various Naval Reserve Training Centers in the area.
When Long Beach Naval Base closed at the end of the Vietnam War, Lambert retired on Aug. 8, 1973 at the age of 58.
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 17:0511(76)CA - Long Beach Naval Shipyard, Long Beach, CA and FEMT Council -- 1985 FLRAdec CA
While this may be a proper subject for ground rules negotiations, nothing in the Statute requires the submission of proposals prior to a face-to-face meeting of the parties.
The Council will be notified of proposed changes to Shipyard safety policies and provided opportunity to submit recommendations and meet and confer on the impact of intended policy changes.
At the outset, it should be noted that the arbitrator's award did not require the agency to set up a study to monitor the effectiveness of safety equipment in eliminating skin irritation due to fibrous glass exposure.
www.flra.gov /decisions/v17/17-076-3.html   (6093 words)

  
 City of Long Beach, CA - Gerald Miller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Jerry Miller was appointed City Manager for the City of Long Beach on May 20, 2003.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Long Beach Area Council of the Boy Scouts, and is a former board member of the Conservation Corps of Long Beach, Los Angeles-Long Beach World Trade Center Association, and Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation.
Miller served as representative for area City Managers on the I-710 Freeway Oversight Policy Committee which is exploring the expansion and improvement of the Long Beach Freeway for the Gateway Cities Council of Governments.
www.ci.long-beach.ca.us /citymanager/team/bio.asp   (360 words)

  
 Articles - Shipyard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
It currently operates three Shipyards in the United Kingdom; two large Shipbuilding yards on the River Clyde in Glasgow - which specialise in surface shipbuilding projects like the Type 45 Destroyer - and a Submarine Centre of Excellence at Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria.
Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, is one of the largest shipyards in the world; specializing in repairing, overhauling and modernizing ships and submarines.
The beach at Alang in the Indian state of Gujarat is the site of a large complex of shipbreaking yards which processes 50% of the ships that are salvaged.
www.gaple.com /articles/Shipyard?mySession=48de7f2d01ed0ca331a25c10740ac481   (716 words)

  
 HISTORY OF THE USS BENNER
The period from August 1964, to April 1965, was occupied with ASW exercises and local operations off the South California coast interrupted by relatively long periods in the homeport of Long Beach.
The resultant damage to the starboard strut bearing the starboard propeller necessitated a ten-day repair period at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in the latter part of February.
On 12 August 1965, BENNER and the rest of the ASW Group ONE departed Long Beach for a six-month deployment to the Western Pacific.
www.destroyers.org /uss-benner/history_of_the_uss_benner5.htm   (675 words)

  
 Disposition of Spare Gun Barrels
The nine 16 inch Mark IV gun barrels that were being stored at the Long Beach California Naval Shipyard have been disposed of by the US Navy.
Bob Sawyer of the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station and the U.S. Navy Supply Depot in Crane, Indiana.
Pickering, the former Commander of the Long Beach Naval Station before it was deactivated, convinced the Navy to donate the cost of moving the barrel to the museum.
www.battleship.org /html/News/Archive/SpareGuns.htm   (281 words)

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