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US warship burns for 12 hours off Japan coast

YOKOSUKA– A fire aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans (LPD 18), which is anchored near White Beach Naval Facility, Okinawa, was declared extinguished at 4 a.m., ...
The New Orleans has been deployed to Sasebo, Japan, since December 2019. The ship is one of the Navy’s San Antonio-class ...
The Navy declared a fire aboard the amphibious transport dock USS New Orleans extinguished following a 12-hour battle ...
Video from Japanese local media showed crews responding to a fire on the USS New Orleans near Okinawa.
U.S. and Japanese crews extinguished the fire aboard amphibious transport docking ship New Orleans off the coast of Okinawa, ...
U.S. Navy crews and the Japan Coast Guard fought the blaze for about 11 hours before extinguishing it Thursday morning.
The amphibious transport dock ship came back to White Beach Naval Facility under its own power, the U.S. 7th Fleet said.
The amphibious warship USS New Orleans is now in port after suffering a 12-hour-long blaze off the coast of Japan.