Decommissioning
Newport News was decommissioned on 27 June 1975, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 31 July 1978, and sold for scrap to Southern Scrap Material Company, Limited, in New Orleans, Louisiana, on 25 February 1993. She spent her twilight years as a member of the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard's "Mothball Fleet". The last of the heavy cruisers to be taken out of service, a museum dedicated to Newport News and her crew is maintained in USS Salem in Quincy, Massachusetts.
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