USS Bainbridge (CGN-25)
The USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25/CGN-25) was a nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser in the United States Navy, the only ship of her class. Named in honor of Commodore William Bainbridge, she was the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name. With her original hull classification symbol of DLGN (nuclear-powered guided missile destroyer leader, called a "frigate" at the time), she was the first nuclear-powered destroyer-type ship in the US Navy, and shared her name with the lead ship of the first US Navy destroyer class, the Bainbridge-class destroyers.
Bainbridge was re-designated as a guided missile cruiser in 1975. She was commissioned on October 6th 1962, and served for over thirty years in the Atlantic, Pacific, Mediterranean, and Middle East before being decommissioned on September 13th 1996.
