Two other cruisers would also be upgraded to missile cruisers at New York Ship.
In December 1960, Little Rock emerged as CLG-4, a guided missile light cruiser armed with nuclear tipped “Talos” guided missiles and the latest naval radar systems. The navy’s program for converting WWII cruisers to carry guided missiles brought USS Little Rock (CL-92) to New York Ship. However, not all work involved new construction. At close to 60,000 tons, Kitty Hawk was the largest hull ever launched from New York Ship. In December 1956, the super carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) was laid down in the new drydock. Heavy industrial machinery such as this made the construction of extremely complex ships possible in Camden, NJ. One of the many large capacity planer machines at New York Ship, with a platen travel of 40 feet. A new drydock over 1,100 feet in length was constructed to the south of the original covered shipways.
In preparation for building one of the Navy’s large conventionally powered super carriers, New York Ship experienced its last major expansion. In 1953, the Merritt Chapman Scott Corporation acquired New York Ship, and continued to produce many new warships and merchant vessels. Home History Into the Nuclear Age Nuclear Submarines and Merchant Shipsįollowing the war, New York Shipbuilding Corporation moved into the nuclear age, producing a series of nuclear submarines and the first commercial nuclear merchant ship, NS Savannah. Above: NS Savannah, America’s first and only nuclear propelled merchant ship, built at New York Ship in 1964.
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