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04013620 |
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Launching Invitation for USS California (DLGN-36) on 22
Sept 1971 at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. |
Robert M. Cieri |
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Newport News Shipyard Launch Bulletin, SEP 1971 |
Robert M. Cieri |
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Launching booklet, 22 SEP 1971. |
Robert M. Cieri |
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Commissioning Booklet, 16 FEB 1974. |
Robert M. Cieri |
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Undated photo in drydock. |
Robert M. Cieri |
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Starboard view, underway. |
USN |
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Undated port side view.
U.S. Navy photo.
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Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr. |
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Undated port side view. |
Robert Hirsh |
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Undated starboard bow view. |
Robert M. Cieri |
04013621 |
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Port quarter view, date and location unknown. |
Robert Hirsh |
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"The Navy's second nuclear task force is shown off
the Virginia Capes. USS
Nimitz (CVN-68) is escorted by the nuclear-powered cruisers USS
California (CGN-36) and USS South
Carolina (CGN-37)." From the NAVSEA Journal.
This photo was possibly taken in 1975.
|
Bob Bush |
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This is a picture of the Nimitz
Task Group from 1976 with South Carolina
(CGN-37) (top), Nimitz
(CVN-68), and California (CGN-36).
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Michael Boyd,
USS California |
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Taken at Portsmouth, England on the occasion of the Silver
Jubilee Celebration of Queen Elizabeth 28 Jun 1977. |
Vernon C. Cook USN (Ret.) |
04013812 |
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An aerial starboard bow view of six nuclear-powered guided missile
cruisers underway in formation during exercise READEX 1-81. The ships
are, from left to right: USS TEXAS (CGN-39),
USS MISSISSIPPI (CGN-40), USS
CALIFORNIA (CGN-36), USS SOUTH
CAROLINA (CGN-37), USS VIRGINIA (CGN-38) and USS
ARKANSAS (CGN-41). Photo taken 26 February 1981 by PH1 Anthony
Alleyne.
DOD Photo #DN-SC-87-08333
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Steve Dietrich |
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Change of Command booklet, NOV 1985 |
Robert M. Cieri |
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While at sea in 1987. |
USN |
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Pierside at Pearl Harbor 1987. |
Larry Lee |
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July 1987, Just passing under the Golden Gate Bridge returning
from her World Cruise. |
D. Stephenson, SMC, USN (Ret) |
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1983, Off Point Loma, Port Bow view. |
D. Stephenson, SMC, USN (Ret) |
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Change of Command booklet, 21 DEC 1991 |
Robert M. Cieri |
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Working up for deployment, October 1997, off the coast of
Port Angeles Washington. |
USN |
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USS California launches a missile skyward to a target
two miles away. USS California is operating in the Pacific Ocean
during RIMPAC '98. RIMPAC '98 is designed to enhance the tactical capabilities
of participating units in major aspects of maritime operations at sea.
RIMPAC '98 is the sixteenth in a series of Pacific naval exercises. DoD
photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Spike Call. (980721-N-5961C-003) |
DOD |
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Deactivation Booklet, 28 AUG 1998. |
Robert M. Cieri |
