Huntington Ingalls Industries
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier currently in service with the United States Navy.Commissioned in 1977, the ship is the second of ten Nimitz-class aircraft carriers currently in service, and is the first ship named after the 34th President of the United States and General of the Army, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
SS Cape Jacob. USS Carl Vinson. USS Casa Grande. USS Catamount. Charles N. Curtis - Sea Scout Ship 110. USS Charleston (C-22) USS Charleston (LKA-113) USS Charlotte (SSN-766) USS Cheyenne (SSN-773)
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia: Laid down: 26 June 1967: Launched: 7 December 1968: Sponsored by: Mrs. Charles F. Bird: Commissioned: 4 February 1970: Decommissioned: 28 March 1997: Stricken: 28 March 1997: Motto: All Good Men: Honors and awards: Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Award for U.S. Atlantic ...
1970s. In 1969–1970, Enterprise returned to Newport News Shipbuilding and went through an overhaul and her second refitting. In January 1971, she completed sea trials with newly designed nuclear reactor cores that contained enough energy for 10 years.
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.
U.S. military aircraft carrier USS Ranger launched at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. 1937 – Aberdeen Gardens (housing) built in nearby Hampton for shipworkers. 1942 – U.S. military Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation headquartered in Newport News during World War II. 1945 – Citizens Rapid Transit Co. founded.
A new Virginia-class submarine has been delivered to the U.S. Navy: The future USS New Jersey. The fast-attack submarine was accepted from Huntington Ingalls Industries' Newport News Shipbuilding ...
First Lady Pat Nixon christens California on September 22, 1971. The contract to build California was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia, on 13 June 1968 and her keel was laid down on 23 January 1970.
Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, New Jersey — — — — Cancelled, 16 December 1940 Fargo CL-85 New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey 11 April 1942 — — — Reordered as the light aircraft carrier USS Langley (CVL-27) Vicksburg (ex-Cheyenne) CL-86 Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport ...