Talk:USS Newport (LST-1179)

Latest comment: 7 years ago by RJFJR in topic Deployments

Deployments

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moved to talk This list is too detailed, to much just a list, and badly formatted. RJFJR (talk) 20:32, 16 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

{{Prose|date=May 2009}}

  • May 1970; Caribbean
  • April 1971 – Oct 71 Mediterranean
  • August 1972; Caribbean
  • November 1973 – June 1974; Regular Overhaul
  • August 1974 – Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
  • January 1975 – March 1975; Caribbean
  • August 1975 ; Caribbean
  • October 1975 – December 1975; North Atlantic
  • March 1976; Caribbean
  • June 1976 – December 1976; Mediterranean
  • June 1977; Caribbean
  • February 1978 – August 1978; Mediterranean
  • September 1978 – September 1979; Regular Overhaul

Initially dry docked at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, followed by move to Horn Brother, Newport News, Virginia. Commander William Naldrett relieves Commander Fred – June 1979.

  • October 1979; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba/Haiti

Refresher training after Regular Overhaul included a post visit to Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

  • February 1980; North Atlantic

12 March 1980 – Crosses Arctic Circle off the coast of Norway.

  • July 1980; Caribbean
  • August 1980 – February 1981; North Atlantic-Mediterranean–Indian Ocean
  • 5 November 1980 – Shellback Initiation off the coast of Kenya crossing the Equator
  • Early December 1980 - Supporting Amphibious landings on the island of Sardinia and training in Italy with port calls to Naples and Gaieta, Italy
  • December Holiday Season and New Years in Malaga, Spain
  • January 1981 - 2 of four engines fail and one shaft fails. Ship under tow. Embarked Navy SEEBEES cut through decks to move remaining good engine to good shaft. Ship makes 8 knots back to the USA under her own power.
  • February 1981 - Return to Morehead City, NC, USA to offload embarked Marines
  • February 1981 - Return to Naval Amphibous Base, Little Creek, VA
  • January 1982 – Mediterranean-Indian Ocean

17 March 1982 – Fire destroys No. 3 Engine Room while anchored in the port of Berbera, Somalia

  • April 1982 – December 1982; yard period
  • December 1982; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
  • January 1983 – April 1983; North Atlantic
  • September 1984 – February 1985; Mediterranean
  • April 1986; Caribbean Included port call in St. John's, Antigua
  • August 1986 – October 1986; Northern Wedding Included crossing of Arctic Circle in August, port calls in Bergen, Norway and Edinburgh, Scotland and traverse of Kiel Canal, Germany
  • January 1987 – August 1987; Mediterranean, Included port calls in Genoa and Naples, Italy; Marseilles and Villefranche sur mer, France; Valencia, Spain; and Lisbon, Portugal; Completed OPPE on return trip
  • December 1988 – June 1989; Mediterranean
  • September 1989 – March 1990; regular overhaul
  • April 1990; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
  • August 1990 – March 1991; Mediterranean – West Africa

December 1990 – Shellback Initiation off the coast of Liberia

  • November 1991 – June 1992; Mediterranean
  • September 1992; decommissioned