Talk:USS Long Beach (CGN-9)

Coordinate error

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The following coordinate fixes are needed for USS Long Beach. Photos clearly show the ship is NOT at the coordinates shown.

—{{subst:mountshadow}} — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mountshadow (talk • contribs) 04:38, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

@Mountshadow: see comment on your tp regarding this issue. Thanks - wolf 06:17, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

I've removed the coordinates and the mentions of the ship's continued existence from the article. Deor (talk) 17:02, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

'Last Cruiser Hull'

I have tried to tame the claim made in this section of the opening, as it clearly needed verification and I've tried to create a 'certain point of view' work-around. But it still might be unacceptable and weasel-worded, so revert away if necessary. Personally, I'm not all that happy with the edit.

The reason for this is that, frankly, the claim makes no real sense:

Long Beach had a hull with a LBR of over 10:1, like a destroyer, and a pronounced knuckle at the bow, unlike either a WW2 destroyer or a WW2 cruiser of the Cleveland or Baltimore classes (which also had LBRs of just less than 10:1).

All the succeeding 'destroyer leaders', 'frigates' and so on were of much larger (and very different) type to WW2 destroyers, while Long beach did not typify the WW2 cruiser hull-form, so really I don't understand what this whole "last cruiser hull in the USN" is actually all about?

Perhaps this is actually an element ripe for deletion, since it seems to be very conjectural or just based on opinion. 2A00:23C7:3119:AD01:F5FA:9036:757D:DC83 (talk) 18:09, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

That specific sentence has been tagged as needing a source, and the article as whole is tagged as well. - wolf 02:08, 3 April 2023 (UTC)