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USS Newport News (CA–148) was the third and last ship of the Des Moines-class of heavy cruisers in the United States Navy. She was the first fully air-conditioned surface ship and the last active all-gun heavy cruiser in the United States Navy. [1]
USS Newport News (AK-3), was a German cargo ship named Odenwald, taken over by the US Navy during World War I; USS Newport News (CA-148), was a Des Moines-class heavy cruiser in service from 1948 to 1978; USS Newport News (SSN-750), is a Los Angeles-class submarine commissioned in 1989 and currently in active service
The United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum is a private non-profit museum in Quincy, Massachusetts featuring USS Salem, a heavy cruiser docked at the former Fore River Shipyard where she was laid down in 1945. The museum was established in 1993, in response to efforts by local officials and volunteers to revive the shipyard area after ...
CA-142 Cancelled, 12 August 1945 CA-143 Newport News: CA-148 Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia: 1 October 1945 6 March 1948 29 January 1949 27 June 1975 Struck 31 July 1978, Sold for scrap, 25 February 1993 — CA-149 — Cancelled, 12 August 1945 CA-150 New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey: CA-151 CA-152 CA-153
The Saco River (/ ˈ s ɑː k oʊ / SAH-koh, Abenaki: Sαkóhki) is a river in northeastern New Hampshire and southwestern Maine in the United States. It drains a rural area of 1,703 square miles (4,410 km 2 ) of forests and farmlands west and southwest of Portland , emptying into the Atlantic Ocean at Saco Bay , 136 miles (219 km) from its ...
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English: The U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Newport News (CA-148) firing on targets in Vietnam at night, circa in 1967. Newport News was deployed to the Western Pacific and Vietnam from 5 September 1967 to 13 May 1968.