For the next two months, she performed exercises off the east coast and in the Caribbean, before sailing for Europe on 4 June. Following this five-month cruise, she returned to Norfolk on 23 March 1946. Service history 1945 to 1949 Īfter shakedown off Cuba and training along the Atlantic coast, Little Rock departed Newport, Rhode Island on 21 October for South America. Little Rock was laid down by William Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding Company, Philadelphia, 6 March 1943 launched 27 August 1944, sponsored by Mrs Sam Wassell and commissioned 17 June 1945, with Capt. She decommissioned for the final time in 1976 and is now a museum ship, located in Buffalo, New York. In this configuration, she served in the Mediterranean, often as the Sixth Fleet flagship. This involved removal of most of her forward armament to allow for an enlarged superstructure and was recommissioned in 1960 as CLG-4 (redesignated CG-4 in 1975). Like three other of her sister Cleveland ships converted to missile ships, she was also extensively modified forward to become a flagship. In the late 1950s, she was converted to a Galveston-class guided-missile cruiser, removing her aft six-inch and five-inch guns to accommodate the Talos missile system. Commissioned in mid-1945, she was completed too late to see combat duty during World War II and was retired post-war, becoming part of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet in 1949. She is one of six to be converted to guided missile cruisers and the first US Navy ship to be named for Little Rock, Arkansas.
USS Little Rock (CL-92/CLG-4/CG-4) is a Cleveland-class light cruiser and one of 27 completed for the United States Navy during or shortly after World War II. 1 × twin-rail Mark 7 Talos SAM launcher, 46 missiles.1 × dual 5 in (127 mm)/38 caliber anti-aircraft guns in Mark 32 mount.1 × triple 6 in (152 mm)/47 caliber Mark 16 guns.4 × triple 6 in (152 mm)/47 caliber Mark 16 guns.Museum Ship at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Parkġ1,000 nmi (20,000 km) 15 kn (17 mph 28 km/h) USS Little Rock (CLG-4), off Naples, Italy, on 31 July 1967, while serving as flagship of the Sixth Fleet.
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