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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 ).
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)
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 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 ...
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.
Newport News Shipbuilding: Newport News, Virginia: Mount Whitney: Blue Ridge-class command ship: For United States Navy. 10 January United States: Electric Boat: Groton, Connecticut: Bluefish: Sturgeon-class submarine For United States Navy. 13 January Japan: Chikugo: Chikugo-class destroyer escort For Japanese Navy. 17 January United States ...
Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. - LCC 20; Operators: United States Navy: In commission: 1970 - Present: Planned: 3: Completed: 2: Cancelled: 1: Active: 2: General characteristics; Displacement: 18,874 long tons (19,176.89 metric tons) full load: Length: 634 ft (193 m) Beam: 108 ft (33 m) Draft: 26 ft 9 in (8.15 m) full load: Propulsion
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 ...
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia: Laid down: 11 May 1964: Launched: 25 February 1966: Sponsored by: Julia Butler Hansen (1907–1988) Commissioned: 6 December 1966: Decommissioned: 8 November 1991: Out of service: 21 September 1990: Stricken: 14 April 1992: Identification: SSN-651: Motto: La Reine de la Mer ...
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 ...