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Founded as the Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Co. in 1886, Newport News Shipbuilding has built more than 800 ships, including both naval and commercial ships. Located in the city of Newport News , Virginia , its facilities span more than 550 acres (2.2 km 2 ).
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.
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.
History; United States; Name: USS Yosemite: Namesake: Yosemite Valley: Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. Launched: 16 March 1892: Acquired: 6 April 1898: Commissioned: 13 April 1898: Fate: Scuttled November 1900: General characteristics; Type: Auxiliary cruiser: Tonnage: 6,179 long tons (6,278 t) Length: 389 ft 2 in (118.62 m ...
Newport News was merely an area of farm lands and a fishing village until the coming of the railroad and the subsequent establishment of the great shipyard. As a 16-year-old in 1837, Collis P. Huntington had visited the rural village known as Newport News Point.
SS. America. (1939) 8 × .50-cal. machine guns. SS America was an ocean liner and cruise ship built in the United States in 1940 for the United States Lines and designed by the noted American naval architect William Francis Gibbs. It carried many names in the 54 years between its construction and its 1994 wreck: SS America (carrying this name ...
History; United States; Name: Forrestal: Namesake: James Forrestal: Ordered: 12 July 1951: Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding: Cost: US$217 million: Laid down: 14 July 1952: Launched: 11 December 1954: Acquired: 29 September 1955: Commissioned: 1 October 1955: Decommissioned: 11 September 1993: Reclassified: CVA-59, 1 Oct 1952; CV-59, 30 June ...
Dorothy is a tugboat and the first ship constructed by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, currently on display in the yard. Dorothy is one of the oldest surviving ships in Virginia. She was built in 1890 and launched in 1891. History
History; United States; Name: Randolph: Namesake: Peyton Randolph: Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company: Laid down: 10 May 1943: Launched: 28 June 1944: Commissioned: 9 October 1944: Decommissioned: 25 February 1948: Recommissioned: 1 July 1953: Decommissioned: 13 February 1969: Stricken: 1 June 1973: Fate: Scrapped, 24 May ...
History; United States; Name: USS Newport News: Namesake: The City of Newport News, Virginia: Awarded: 19 April 1982: Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding: Laid down: 3 March 1984: Launched: 15 March 1986: Commissioned: 3 June 1989: Homeport: Groton, Connecticut: Identification: MMSI number: 369970208; Callsign: NHTV; Motto: Magni Nominis Umbra ...