USS Newport News CA-148

Type:
Cruiser
Class:
Des Moines
Builder:
Newport News Shipbuilding &
Drydock Company
Newport News, Virginia
Hull Number:
CA-148
Ordered:
N/A
Commissioned:
January 29, 1949
Keel Laid:
November 1, 1945
Decommissioned:
June 27, 1975
Launched:
March 6, 1948
Stricken:


July 31, 1978
Fate:
Sold Feb. 25, 1993 to Southern Scrap Material Company, New Orleans, Louisiana and scrapped.


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Builder's Data
Page published Nov. 14, 2008