The Navy declared a fire aboard the amphibious transport dock USS New Orleans extinguished following a 12-hour battle Wednesday night off the coast of Okinawa, Japan. U.S. 7th Fleet officials said the fire began at 4 p.m. Wednesday afternoon while the ship was anchored off the White Beach Naval Facility.

The Sasebo naval base is among the major facilities of the Japan-based U.S. Seventh Fleet, headquartered in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo at the mouth of Tokyo Bay. Yokosuka is also the home port of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington, the Navy's only permanently forward-deployed flattop.

Video from Japanese local media showed crews responding to a fire on the USS New Orleans near Okinawa.

The amphibious warship USS New Orleans is now in port after suffering a 12-hour-long blaze off the coast of Japan.

WASHINGTON — The USS New Orleans (LPD 18) caught fire Wednesday off the coast of Okinawa, according to the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet. The fire began at approximately 4 p.m. Wednesday, local time. It was declared extinguished at 4 a.m. Thursday, a U.S. Navy spokesperson said.

Two sailors sustained minor injuries, the Navy said, adding that the ship’s crew will remain on board in Okinawa.

Two U.S. sailors were treated for minor injuries from the fire on the USS New Orleans, anchored near Okinawa, the U.S. 7th Fleet said in a statement.

Firefighting operations underway for the US Navy's San Antonio class amphibious warfare ship USS New Orleans, which suffered a fire while it was off White Beach in Uruma City on t