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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.
History; United States; Name: USS Proteus: Namesake: Proteus: Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company: Laid down: 31 October 1911: Launched: 14 September 1912: Commissioned: 9 July 1913: Decommissioned: 25 March 1924: Stricken: 5 December 1940: Fate: Sold, 8 March 1941; Lost at sea, November 1941; General characteristics; Class ...
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 ...
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: 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 ...
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 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: 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 ...
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.