USS Newport News (SSN-750)
1986 Los Angeles-class submarine
USS Newport News (SSN-750), a Los Angeles-class submarine, is the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Newport News, Virginia.
History
On 19 April 1982, the contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia. 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. 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 submarine Hyman G. Rickover.
Collision with Japanese ship
On 8 January 2007, Newport News was submerged in the Arabian Sea south of the Straits of Hormuz when the submarine hit the Japanese tanker Mogamigawa. She had been operating as part of Carrier Strike Group 8 (CSG-8), organized around the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69). The Carrier Strike Group was redeploying to the Indian Ocean to support a maritime cordon during the war in Somalia when the incident happened.
Newport News suffered damage to her bow, but there was no damage to the sail, mast or reactor, and she made for port in Bahrain under her own power.
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