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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.
Newport News Shipbuilding. 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. [11]
The vessel was constructed between 1950 and 1952 at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company in Newport News, Virginia. [3] United States was built to exacting Navy specifications, which required that the ship be heavily compartmentalized, and have separate engine rooms to optimize wartime survivability. [12]
History[edit] The museum was founded in 1930 by Archer Milton Huntington, son of Collis P. Huntington, a railroad builder who brought the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway to Warwick County, Virginia, and who founded the City of Newport News, its coal export facilities, and Newport News Shipbuilding in the late 19th century.
California was the first of three sister ships built by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Newport News, Virginia for the Panama Pacific Lines, a subsidiary of American Line Steamship Corporation which was a part of J. P. Morgan 's International Mercantile Marine Coompany.
Built as El Sud in 1892 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, in Newport News, Virginia for the Southern Pacific Railroad's Morgan Line. [2] The Navy acquired El Sud on 6 April 1898, at the beginning of the Spanish–American War and renamed her Yosemite.
The Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Newport News, Virginia built the ship as Peten for United Fruit Company's United Mail Steamship Company subsidiary. Peten was one of six UFC sister ships with General Electric turbo-electric transmission ordered in August 1930 to be built under the Merchant Marine Act of 1928.
History. The Dorothy was designed by Horace See and built in 1890 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company of Newport News, Virginia for Captain James P. Sheffield of Norfolk. [4] The tugboat was named for Dorothy Whitney, the daughter of former Secretary of the Navy William C. Whitney. [5]
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