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The museum ship, USS Salem in Quincy, Massachusetts contains her bell and other items dedicated to Newport News and her crew. [13] In the Hampton Roads Naval Museum's The Ten Thousand-Day War at Sea: The U.S. Navy in Vietnam, 1950–1975 section of the museum, a large model of Newport News in her Vietnam configuration is displayed. [14]
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
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.
The crew consisted of 1,196 young men in their late teens and early twenties. Approximately 300 men went down with the ship and 317 survived, with approximately 550 to 600 lost at sea. The 24- or 48-eight-hour difference could have saved hundreds of lives; if an escort with submarine detection capability had been present, all might have been saved.
Simon Bolivar ' s keel was laid down on 17 April 1963 by Newport News Shipbuilding of Newport News, Virginia.She was launched on 22 August 1964, sponsored by Nancy Milling (Aynesworth) Mann, wife of Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas C. Mann, and commissioned on 29 October 1965 with Commander Charles H. Griffiths commanding the Blue Crew and Commander Charles A ...
OceanGate co-founder says regulations around Titanic dives are ‘antiquated’ Titanic sub likely imploded ‘hours’ before search launched, Coast Guard says
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