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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.
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.
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 ...
History; United States; Name: Intrepid: Namesake: USS Intrepid (1904) Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding: Laid down: 1 December 1941: Launched: 26 April 1943: Commissioned: 16 August 1943: Decommissioned: 15 March 1974: Reclassified: CVA-11, 1 October 1952; CVS-11, 31 Mar 1962; Stricken: 23 February 1982: Status: Museum ship at the Intrepid ...
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)
Two ports of embarkation were established with commanders appointed 17 July 1917, one at New York with headquarters at Hoboken and the second, then officially the Newport News Port of Embarkation, in Hampton Roads with headquarters at Newport News.
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 ...
Christopher Newport (1561–1617) was an English seaman and privateer. He is best known as the captain of the Susan Constant, the largest of three ships which carried settlers for the Virginia Company in 1607 on the way to found the settlement at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony, which became the first permanent English settlement in North America.