USS Newport News (SSN-750)
.jpg) The Newport News with her sister ship the Scranton |
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| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Order | April 19, 1982 |
| Keel laying | March 3, 1984 |
| Launch | March 15, 1986 |
| 1. Period of service |
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| Commissioning | June 3, 1989 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
6300 tons surfaced, 7100 tons submerged |
| length |
110.3 m |
| width |
10 m |
| Draft |
9.7 m |
| Diving depth | approx. 300 m |
| crew |
12 officers, 115 men |
| drive |
An S6G reactor |
| speed |
30+ knots |
| Armament |
4 533 mm torpedo tubes , 12 VLS tubes |
The USS Newport News (SSN-750) is a nuclear-powered submarine of the Los Angeles-class submarine . The namesake for the boat is the city of Newport News in Virginia , in which, among other things, the Newport News Shipbuilding is based.
history
SSN-750 was commissioned in April 1982 and laid down at Newport News Shipbuilding in March 1984. After two years in dry dock, the final equipment took place at the pier, after the first test drives, the Newport News was officially put into service in 1989.
In 1991 the Newport News took part in Operation Desert Storm , and three years later the boat was ordered to the Persian Gulf . In 2002, the Newport News left its home port with the carrier combat group around the USS George Washington (CVN-73) and took part in Operation Iraqi Freedom in early 2003 . During this, the boat shot down the BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile at land targets in Iraq. For this, the then commandant of the boat, Cmdr. Frederick J. Capria, the Bronze Star . The next mission began in 2004 and led the boat with the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) in the North Atlantic.
On January 8, 2007, the submarine collided with the Japanese tanker Mogamigawa while underwater . The Newport News hit the tanker's bow at the stern. The boat was again part of the Eisenhower combat group , the combat group supported an attack on suspected al-Qaeda fighters in Somalia from the Arabian Sea . The submarine and the tanker both remained seaworthy, the Newport News then went to Bahrain , where the damage was examined more closely. The reason given was that the 300,000 ts displacing Mogamigawa drove over the barely 7,000 ts large boat and "sucked in" due to the Venturi effect . On January 29th, Newport News Commanding Officer, Cmdr. Matthew A. Weingart, removed from his command. In 2009, the submarine moved to the Atlantic for six months.
Web links
- Entry in the Naval Vessel Register (English)
- official website (English)
- USS Newport News Liaison Committee (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ navy.mil: Three Sub Commanders Awarded Bronze Star for OIF ( Memento from November 23, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (English).
- ↑ The Washington Post : US Strike in Somalia Targets Al-Qaeda Figure .
- ↑ Jack Dorsey: Navy says speed of tanker sucked submarine up to surface. hamptonroads.com, January 10, 2007, archived from the original on December 10, 2007 ; accessed on February 24, 2013 .
- ↑ navy.mil: USS Newport News Commanding Officer Relieved of Command .