Operational History
The ship's first commander was Captain Ted Hontz, who took command at the commissioning ceremony on 11 February 1989 in the Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. After traveling through the Panama Canal, the Princeton was home-ported at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, California.
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