USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25)
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USS Bainbridge (CGN-25), named for Commodore William Bainbridge USN (1774-1833), was a Bainbridge class nuclear powered guided missile cruiser laid down by Bethlehem Steel at Quincy in Massachusetts on 15 May 1959, launched on 15 April 1961 and commissioned on 6 October 1962. Bainbridge operated with the carriers on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin, conducted search and rescue (SAR) missions, and served as a positive identification radar zone (PIRAZ) picket ship during the conflict in Vietnam. USS Bainbridge was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 13 September 1996 and disposed of through the Nuclear Powered Ship-Submarine Recycling Program between 1 October 1997 and 30 October 1999.