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Navy ship returns to Mayport after 7-month deployment

The New York deployed in December and participated in numerous interoperability and partnership-building exercises with allies, according to a Navy spokesperson.
Credit: Department of Defense

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — On Tuesday, the USS New York returned from a deployment to from the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet areas of operations to Naval Station Mayport.

The New York deployed in December and participated in numerous interoperability and partnership-building exercises with allies, according to a Navy spokesperson.

 The ARG navigated over 50,000 nautical miles and completed multiple transits through the Strait of Gibraltar, the Suez Canal, the Bab-el Mandeb and the Strait of Hormuz.

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