The second of three Des Moines-class heavy cruisers to be commissioned (of nine originally ordered), Newport News ultimately served longer than her sister ships through the thick of the Cold War at Sea, from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Vietnam War. When USS Newport News (CA 148) was commissioned on January 29, 1949, the war that brought her into existence, the Second World War, had been over for over three years, but the next major conflict for the United States Navy, the Cold War, was in its infancy. Editors note: This article originally appeared as a blog post via the Hampton Roads Naval Museum’s weekly historical blog.īlog: Call Sign Thunder, the Last of the all-gun Cruisers
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