USS Newport News (SSN-750)
USS Newport News, in October 2004
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Newport News |
Namesake | The City of Newport News, Virginia |
Awarded | 19 April 1982 |
Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding |
Laid down | 3 March 1984 |
Launched | 15 March 1986 |
Commissioned | 3 June 1989 |
Homeport | Groton, Connecticut |
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Status | in active service |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | Los Angeles-class submarine |
Displacement | |
Length | 110.3 m (361 ft 11 in) |
Beam | 10 m (32 ft 10 in) |
Draft | 9.4 m (30 ft 10 in) |
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Test depth | 290 m (950 ft) |
Complement | 13 officers; 121 enlisted |
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USS Newport News (SSN-750), a
Collision with Japanese ship
On 8 January 2007, Newport News was operating submerged in the
According to a Navy spokesman, the collision occurred as a result of the venturi effect. The tanker passed over the area where the submarine was submerged and this created a sucking effect that forced the submarine upward to the surface.[8] The incident was the third collision between a US nuclear-powered submarine and a Japanese civilian ship.[9]
On 29 January, after the boat returned to Bahrain for repairs, administrative personnel actions, also known as
On 10 April the Iranian Fars News Agency reported that Newport News has been leaking radioactive and chemical pollution into the Persian Gulf and claimed that following this formal complaint, the ship departed the gulf for a complete overhaul.[11] 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.[12] On 2 October 2007 the US Navy agreed to pay Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd, the company that owns Mogamigawa an undisclosed amount in compensation for the collision.[13]
Gallery
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Newport News departingSouda Bay, Greece, 2004
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Newport News off the coast of Crete, 2004
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Newport News with USS Scranton (SSN-756) in Norfolk, Virginia, 2005
References
- ^ "International Panel on Fissile Materials". fissilematerials.org. 10 April 2020. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
- ^ "Validation of the Use of Low Enriched Uranium as a Replacement for Highly Enriched Uranium in US Submarine Reactors" (PDF). dspace.mit.edu. June 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
- ^ U.S. sub collides with Japan ship, CNN, 8 January 2007.
- ^ "Eisenhower Strike Group Completes JTFEX 06-2". Archived from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 9 January 2007.
- ^ DeYoung, Karen (8 January 2007). "U.S. Strike in Somalia Targets Al-Qaeda Figure". The Washington Post. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
- ^ Dorsey, Jack (9 January 2007). "Navy sub damaged in collision heads for port in Bahrain". The Virginian-Pilot. Archived from the original on 22 May 2011. Retrieved 11 January 2007.
- Information Telegraph Agency of Russia. 11 January 2007. Retrieved 11 January 2007.
- ^ Dorsey, Jack (10 July 2007). "Navy says speed of tanker sucked submarine up to surface". The Virginian-Pilot. Archived from the original on 16 October 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2007.
- ^ Kiroku Hanai (23 January 2007). "U.S. presence vs. the public will". The Japan Times.
- ^ "USS Newport News Commanding Officer Relieved of Duty". WTKR Newschannel 3. 29 January 2007. Retrieved 30 January 2007.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "US Submarine Forced to Leave Persian Gulf". Fars News Agency. 10 April 2007. Retrieved 11 April 2007. (Note that the image accompanying the FARS article is not a Los Angeles class submarine.)
- ^ "U.S. withdraws damaged sub said by Iran to leak radiation into Gulf". World Tribune. 13 April 2007. Archived from the original on 20 January 2008. Retrieved 1 February 2008.
- ^ "U.S. Navy to pay for hitting tanker". The Japan Times. Kyodo News. 3 October 2007.
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.