A page in the Deseret News on Feb. 27, 1964, as Utah leaders helped launch the USS Ogden in Brooklyn, N.Y. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives.

The USS Ogden was built in New York in 1965 and was in service for more than 40 years. It was used in the Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars, and more recently used to help protect oil terminals near Iraq.

The Ogden is part of the amphibious ready group led by the USS Bonhomme Richard. Such transport ships act as supply ships and house Marines who are part of the three-ship group.

The submarine collided with the amphibious transport ship USS Ogden Sunday off the coast of Oman as the ships were preparing to transfer two sailors, Pentagon officials said Monday.