Talk:USS Albany (CA-123)

Conversion / Upgrade / De-commission / recommission
I will quote ''" placed out of commission at the Boston Naval Shipyard to begin conversion to a guided missile cruiser. .... spent the next four years at Boston undergoing very extensive modifications as part of the conversion; stripped down to her hull to be fitted with a new superstructure. Albany was recommissioned at Boston on 3 November 1962 ...

''On 1 March 1967, she was decommissioned at the Boston Naval Shipyard once again to undergo extensive modifications. Some 20 months later, on 9 November 1968, Albany was placed back in commission at Boston " : (end quote)

The US navy has not decommissioned ship for conversions /overhauls / upgrades in several years -- Potentially since the early 1970s. Does anyone know reason this practice was stopped? Current, as I write in 2014, there is discussion to restart this practice for some Guided missile cruisers- to include reduced manning even before ship in in availability / overhaul / upgrade. This is primarily as a measure to reduce cost in the limited budget era.

Wfoj3 (talk) 19:38, 19 April 2014 (UTC)