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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 ).
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 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
L. Mendel Rivers (1905–1970), U.S. Representative from South Carolina ' s 1st Congressional District (1941–1970) Ordered: 1 July 1969: Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company: Laid down: 26 June 1971: Launched: 2 June 1973: Sponsored by: Margaret Rivers Eastman and Marion Rivers: Commissioned: 1 February 1975: Decommissioned ...
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)
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.
The contract to build George C. Marshall was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia, on 29 July 1963 and her keel was laid down there on 2 March 1964. She was launched on 21 May 1965, sponsored by Katherine Tupper Marshall, widow of General Marshal.
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.