- vertrep-1972
57663 hitsOne of USS Niagara Falls (AFS 3) helos vertreping USS Newport News (CA 148) in Aug/Sept 1972. Photo by CDR Al Cusick USN Ret. (Niagara Falls Gunnery as well as Flight Deck Officer)
- T-2 center gun
6517 hitsAn exterior view of the gun in which the explosion occurred. The barrel has been blown completely clear of the turret and is connected only by the gun liner. 20 sailors were killed
- NN North Atlantic 1949
2386 hitsIce-encrusted 3-inch mount 31 when she crossed the Arctic Circle in November 1949 as Flagship of the Second Task Fleet
- Kiel-Canal-Germany-1962
10205 hitsAs Second Fleet flagship, Newport News is shown transiting the Kiel Canal through a pastoral portion of West Germany in September 1962. The following month she was in the Caribbean as flagship of the U.S. quarantine force off Cuba. Photo by George Klos