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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. 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.
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 ...
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 ...
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: Mississippi: Namesake: State of Mississippi: Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding: Laid down: 5 April 1915: Launched: 25 January 1917: Commissioned: 18 December 1917: Decommissioned: 17 September 1956: Stricken: 30 July 1956: Honors and awards: 8 × battle stars: Fate: Broken up, 1957: General characteristics; Class ...
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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
He was president of Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia, from July 22, 1915, through July 31, 1946. Biography. Ferguson was born in Waynesville, North Carolina on March 6, 1873. At the age of fifteen he entered the United States Naval Academy and graduated at the head of his class in 1892.