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USS Newport News (CA–148) was the third and last ship of the Des Moines-class of heavy cruisers in the United States Navy. She was the first fully air-conditioned surface ship and the last active all-gun heavy cruiser in the United States Navy.
Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is the sole designer, builder, and refueler of aircraft carriers and one of two providers of submarines for the United States Navy. Founded as the Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Co. in 1886, Newport News Shipbuilding has built more than 800 ships, including both ...
USS Newport News (SSN-750), a Los Angeles -class submarine, is the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Newport News, Virginia. The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia on 19 April 1982 and her keel was laid down on 3 March 1984.
Founded in 1886, HII's Newport News Shipbuilding, headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, is the nation’s sole designer, builder and refueler of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and one of only two shipyards capable of designing and building nuclear-powered submarines.
Doris Miller. USS Doris Miller (CVN-81) will be the fourth Gerald R. Ford -class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. [6] [7] Doris Miller is scheduled to be laid down January 2026, launched October 2029 and commissioned in 2032. She will be built at Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (formerly ...
Awaiting recycling at HII Shipyard, Newport News, Virginia: Badge: General characteristics; Class and type: Enterprise-class aircraft carrier: Displacement: 93,284-long-ton (94,781 t) full load: Length: 1,123 ft (342 m) (after refit) 1,088 ft (332 m) (original) Beam: 132.8 ft (40.5 m) (waterline) 257.2 ft (78.4 m) (extreme) Draft: 39 ft (12 m)
Newport News Shipbuilding: Cost: $679 million ($5.3 billion in 2023 dollars) Laid down: 15 August 1970: Launched: 11 October 1975: Sponsored by: Mamie Doud-Eisenhower: Commissioned: 18 October 1977: Renamed: from Eisenhower: Reclassified: CVN-69, 30 June 1975: Homeport: Norfolk: Identification: MMSI number: 368962000; Callsign: NIKE; Hull ...
The Newport ship in the foundations of the Riverfront Arts Centre, 8 September 2002. The Newport Ship is a mid-fifteenth-century sailing vessel discovered by archaeologists in June 2002 in the city of Newport, South East Wales.
sister ships: St. Thomas, St. Croix. USS Newport News (AK-3) was a cargo liner that was launched in Germany in 1903 as St. Jan. She was renamed Odenwald in 1907 when she changed owners, and Newport News in 1917 when the United States seized her. She was renamed Arctic in 1925, and scrapped in 1937. She was the first of three US Navy ships to be ...
USS Newport News may refer to the following ships operated by the United States Navy: USS Newport News (AK-3), was a German cargo ship named Odenwald, taken over by the US Navy during World War I; USS Newport News (CA-148), was a Des Moines-class heavy cruiser in service from 1948 to 1978