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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]
Cypress city, California – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2000 [26] Pop 2010 [27] Pop 2020 [28] % 2000 % ...
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
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
It was the site used for the 1953 National Scout Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America. [1] The event was held where Newport Center and Fashion Island now sit. It was the third international jamboree; the first jamboree held west of the Mississippi River and had with 50,000 scouts from all 48 states, Alaska, Hawaii, and 16 foreign countries. [2]
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.
C. 1900, picture of U.S. Torpedo Station on Goat Island Sailors at the U.S. Torpedo Station in Newport ca. 1910-1926. In 1869, the U.S. Naval Torpedo Station was founded in Newport, Rhode Island on Goat Island, the site of Fort Wolcott which was built in 1702 and served as an Army fort from 1794 to 1835.
Newport Bay, in Southern California, United States, is the lower bay formed along the coast below the Upper Newport Bay, after the end of the Pleistocene. It was formed by sand, brought by ocean currents from the Santa Ana River and other rivers to the north, which constructed an offshore beach, now called the Balboa Peninsula . [ 1 ]