The USS Long Beach, currently located at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, WA, is being sold for her non-hazardous and demilitarized base materials in the form of 7.35 million pounds of steel, aluminum and copper wiring along with galley equipment, fixtures and furnishings including tables, chairs, lockers and bunks.

The sale and scrapping of the USS Long Beach joins the over one billion pounds of DoD scrap metal and 55 million DoD surplus items that, in the past decade, Government Liquidation has sold to the public for reuse and subsequently kept out of a landfill.

Starting Tuesday, July 10, 2012, Government Liquidation will be accepting bids on this ship through its online marketplace, www.govliquidation.com.

"As a recognized cost saver and solution provider for the DoD we are prepared to find the cruiser a home through our global base of over 34,000 professional scrap buyers," said Tom Burton, President of Government Liquidation. "We receive 20-30 million pounds of scrap metal per month at military installations across the country which are then identified, sorted and prepared for sale; our top priority on each scrap sale, from a pallet of mixed metals to the USS Long Beach, remains on maximizing efficiency and recovery value for our government partner while adhering to safety, environmental and security compliance."