USS Newport News (SSN-750)

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USS Newport News seen here in October of 2004

USS Newport News (SSN-750)
Career USN Jack
Awarded: 19 April 1982
Laid down: 3 March 1984
Launched: 15 March 1986
Commissioned: 3 June 1989
Status: Active in service as of 2007
Homeport: Norfolk, Virginia
General characteristics
Displacement: 5785 tons light, 6187 tons full, 402 tons dead
Length: 110.3 meters (362 feet)
Beam: 10 meters (33 feet)
Draft: 9.4 meters (31 feet)
Propulsion: one S6G reactor
Complement: 12 officers, 98 men

USS Newport News (SSN-750), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Newport News, Virginia.

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The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia on 19 April 1982 and her keel was laid down on 3 March 1984. She was launched on 15 March 1986 sponsored by Mrs. Rosemary D. Trible, and commissioned on 3 June 1989 with Commander Mark B. Keef in command. Mayor Jessie M. Rattley presented the ship with a commemorative plaque containing the poem "Newport News," written by Newport News native Ronald W. Bell, whose poem "Admiral Rickover" also appears upon a plaque aboard the Los Angeles-class sub USS Hyman G. Rickover. The poem appears on this page with permission from the author:

"Newport News"
Harbor of a thousand ships
Forger of a nation's fleet
Gateway to the New World
Where ocean and river meet
Strength wrought from steel
And a people's fortitude
Such is the timeless legacy
Of a place called Newport News.

Newport News returned to Norfolk, Virginia, following a six-month overseas deployment that included operations in the Middle East. She deployed in August 2004, first to take part in joint operations with allied navies in the North Atlantic, then to the U.S. Central Command area of operations "in support of national security interests and the global war on terrorism."

On January 8, 2007, Newport News was operating submerged in the Arabian Sea south of the Straits of Hormuz when it hit the Japanese tanker Mogamigawa.[1] She had been operating as part of Carrier Strike Group 8 (CSG-8),[2] organized around the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69). The Carrier Strike Group was re-deploying to the Indian Ocean to support a maritime cordon during the war in Somalia when the incident happened.[3] The Newport News suffered damage to her bow, but there was no damage to the sail, mast or reactor, and it made for port in Bahrain under its own power.[4] An official of the Kawasaki Kisen Company (or K Line), which owns the tanker, announced that Mogamigawa's hull and propellers were damaged.[5]

According to a Navy Spokesman, the collision occurred as a result of the venturi effect. The tanker drove over the area where the submarine was submerged and this created a sucking effect that forced the submarine upward to the surface.[6] The incident was the third collision between a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine and a Japanese civilian ship.[7]

On 29 January, After the boat returned to Bahrain for repairs, administrative personnel actions (Admiral's Mast) were taken against several members of her crew, which included relieving the boat's commanding officer, Commander Matthew A. Weingart, of command due to a lack of confidence in his ability to command.[8]

On 10 April the Iranian Fars News Agency reported that the Newport News has been leaking radioactive and chemical pollution in the Persian Gulf and claimed that following this formal complaint, the ship departed the gulf for a complete overhaul. [9] The US Navy fifth fleet denied this claim restating that damage was limited to the bow and that the sail, mast and reactors were not damaged.[10] On October 2, 2007 the U.S. Navy agreed to pay Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd, the company that owns Mogamigawa an undisclosed amount in compensation for the collision.[11]

Departing Souda Bay, Crete, Greece

Newport News seen in October 2004 off Crete

Insignia of Newport News SSN-750

See USS Newport News for other ships of the same name.

  1. ^ U.S. sub collides with Japan ship, CNN, January 8, 2007.
  2. ^ Eisenhower Strike Group Completes JTFEX 06-2
  3. ^ "U.S. Strike in Somalia Targets Al-Qaeda Figure", Washington Post, 2007-01-08. 
  4. ^ "Navy sub damaged in collision heads for port in Bahrain", The Virginian-Pilot, 2007-01-09. Retrieved on 2007-01-11. 
  5. ^ "Japan's tanker sustains hull breach, propeller damage", ITAR-TASS, 2007-01-11. Retrieved on 2007-01-11. 
  6. ^ "Navy says speed of tanker sucked submarine up to surface", The Virginian-Pilot, 2007-07-10. Retrieved on 2007-01-11. 
  7. ^ Kiroku Hanai, "U.S. presence vs. the public will", The Japan Times, January 23, 2007, [1]
  8. ^ "USS Newport News Commanding Officer Relieved Of Duty", WTKR Newschannel 3, 2007-01-29. Retrieved on 2007-01-30. 
  9. ^ "US Submarine Forced to Leave Persian Gulf", FARS News Agency, 2007-04-10. Retrieved on 2007-04-11.  (Note that the image accompanying the FARS article is not a Los Angeles class submarine.)
  10. ^ http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/07/front2454204.01875.html
  11. ^ Kyodo News, "U.S. to Pay Kawasaki Kisen over Submarine-Tanker Crash", The Japan Times, October 3, 2007.

This article includes information collected from the public domain sources Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships and Naval Vessel Register.

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