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Below: A rare view of a super- structureless California (DGLN 36) on its maiden launching. 1971. year since Queen Elizabeth ' s coronation. Two years later, when conservative moslems intensified their revolt against the Shah of Iran ' in Decennber 1979, California, with the USS Nimitz (CVN 68) and the USS Texas (CGN 39) interrupted its routine Mediterranean cruise to steam from Livorno, Italy, to the coast of Iran in the Northern Arabian Sea. The three ships made the 12,000 mile trip in 18 days. They stayed on patrol in the Indian Ocean for five months, returning to Norfolk from the 80,000 mile, nine month deployment In May 1980. The following year, upon returning to Norfolk from its second Indian Ocean cruise via the Panama Canal, the Golden Grizzly became the first nuclear powered surface ship to circumnavigate the earth since the USS Enterprise Task Force completed Operation Sea Orbit in 1964. In September, 1983, four months after finishing an extensive 16 month overhaul, the California left Norfolk for the last time. The ship went to Montego Bay, Jamacia, its final Atlantic port o ' call, and then steamed via the Panama Canal to its new homeport, NAS Alameda, California. Since arriving at NAS Alameda October 6, 1983, the Golden Grizzly has spent 383 days away from its homeport on 12 separate cruises. Of these days, more tham 30 were spent near the coast of the Soviet Far East where the California conducted special, independent operations for the U.S. Pacific Fleet during the summer of 1984. The California ' s armament is comprised of two Tartar D Missile Batteries, two Quad Harpoon Launchers, two Super Rapid Blooming Offboard Chaff Launchers, two 5 54 Caliber Lightweight Guns, one Eight-Cell Anti-Submarine Rocket Launcher, four Anti- Submarine Torpedo Tubes, and two Vulcan Phalanx Close-in weapons. Her length is 596 feet, and extreme breadth is 61 feet. Her full-load displacement is 10.000 tons. With propulsion from two nuclear reactors. the California ' s top speed is more than 30 knots. Her fuel capacity is enough to provide power for 13 years of normal operation, and the production capability of her distilling plants is 34,480 gallons per day. The California has received a total of 30 E awards.
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