Operations by Vietnam resumed October 21 October and continued until December 1972, when the ship was recalled to homeport at Norfolk. During 1973 and 1974 the ship undertook training cruises and visited many ports around the world before being recalled for decommissioning.
While there was some interest in retaining her for her "big gun" capability in the fleet, a survey to determine further service indicated the ship was beyond economical refitting.
The Newport News was decommissioned on 27 June 1975 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 31 July 1978.
She spent her later years as part of the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Mothball Fleet and was sold for scrap in New Orleans, Louisiana, , on 25 February1993.
The museum ship USS Quincy, in Quincy, Massachusetts, contains her bell and other items.
In the Hampton Roads Naval Museum's The Ten-Thousand Day War at Sea: The US Navy in Vietnam, 1970-1975 section, a large model of the USS Newport News.
--Cooter
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