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USS Little Rock (CL-92/CLG-4/CG-4) was one of 27 United
States Navy Cleveland-class light cruisers completed during or shortly after
World War II, and one of six to be converted to guided missile cruisers. She
was the first US Navy ship to be named for Little Rock ,
Arkansas . Commissioned in mid-1945, she was
completed too late to see combat duty during World War II. After an initial
South American cruise, she spent the next few years serving off the east coast
of the U.S. , in
the Caribbean , and in the Mediterranean .
Like all but one of her sister ships, she was retired in the post-war defense
cutbacks, becoming part of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet in 1949.
In the late 1950s she was converted to a Galveston-class
guided missile cruiser, which involved removing all her aft guns and rebuilding
her aft superstructure to accommodate the Talos missile system. Like most of
the Cleveland ships converted to
missile ships, she was also extensively modified forward to become a flagship.
This involved removal of most of her forward armament to allow for a greatly
enlarged superstructure. She was recommissioned in 1960 as CLG-4 (and in 1975
redesignated CG-4).
In her new career she served extensively in the Mediterranean ,
often as the Sixth Fleet flagship. She decommissioned for the last time in
1976, and is now a museum ship in Buffalo , New
York .
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