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HIP' HISTORY On 3 November 1962 the most heavily armed ship in the world joined the ileet as the U.S.S. ALBANY was re- commissioned after being converted from a gun to a guided missile cruiser and designated CG-10. The super-structure, towering 90 feet high, and two macks , accenting a new type of naval architecture housed TALOS,TARTAR ' ' 9 and ASROC missile systems providingthe 18,000 ton vessel with more fire o p wer than any other ship in the world. ln the meantime, sister ships, USS CHICAGO CCG-llb and USS COLUMBUS CCG-l2Dwere being constructed on the West Coast. On her maiden voyage off the Virginia Capes on 30 January 1963, ALBANY fired two TALOS and a TARTAR, marking the first time th ree missiles were launched simul- taneously. The cruise, which began on l vh 8 January and ended x en she returned to Boston on March 30, proved to be a h . . d ,rew. . successful test of the sh1D'S 011551195 an C h kedown crulse Departing B0StO11, August 1' for hciiliiglsted an arduous Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ALBANY C ' . . .HuI'I'1CElH9 schedule of missile firings and underway g?fEnCr5Ja and other Flora, which caused considerable dam gut Short. ALBANY Islands caused the exercises to bef Floravswinds. After headed north .... outrunnillg the fury O for ar 9paratioI1S riving safely in Norfolk, ALBANY began pr I . dferranean- a tour with the U. S. Sixth Fleet in the MG 1 bGI' - . h-beg-an NOVem During the Mediterranean cru1S9,Wh1C . v . Admiral ' 29, 1963, ALBANY was the flag SNP for Rear ghf Sm , F10till2lE1 .' ith, USN, Commander, Cruiser-Destroyer . th1S -S95 during ALBANY participated in numerous exerci cruise. me t to the HOHOT9 ln mid-April, 1964, ALBANY was hos . 'lllam - Admiral W1 Paul Nitze, Secretary ofthe Navy 21115 V109