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Newport News Shipbuilding ( NNS ), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is the sole designer, builder, and refueler of aircraft carriers and one of two providers of submarines for the United States Navy. Founded as the Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Co. in 1886, Newport News Shipbuilding has built more than 800 ships, including ...
Ingalls Shipbuilding: Pascagoula, Mississippi: Aspro: Sturgeon-class submarine 1 December United Kingdom: Harland & Wolff: Belfast: Gowanbank: Cargo ship: For Bank Line. 2 December United States: Newport News Shipbuilding: Newport News, Virginia: Charleston: Charleston-class amphibious cargo ship 2 December Australia: Archer: Attack-class ...
USS Texas (BB-35) is a museum ship in Galveston and former United States Navy New York-class battleship.She was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned on 12 March 1914. Texas served in Mexican waters following the "Tampico Incident" but saw no action there, and made numerous sorties into the North Sea during World War I without engaging the enemy, though she did fire for the first time when ...
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier currently in service with the United States Navy.Commissioned in 1977, the ship is the second of ten Nimitz-class aircraft carriers currently in service, and is the first ship named after the 34th President of the United States and General of the Army, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
SEMAR (Veracruz Federal Shipbuilding) Carso Marina; Pemex Construcción; Veracruz Kukulkan Shipyards; Zihuatanejo Marina; Acapulco shipyards (Acapulco Naval Shipbuilding) United States. Alameda Works Shipyard, Alameda, California (1916–1956) American Shipbuilding, Cleveland, Ohio, Lorain, Ohio (1888–1995) Atlantic Basin Iron Works, Brooklyn ...
Today, it hosts the Huntington Ingalls Industries Shipbuilding company and Newport News Shipbuilding, the largest military ship building company in the United States. Newport News is home to The Mariners' Museum and Park. The museum is located at 100 Museum Drive in Newport News, Virginia. (1994) Aerial view of the Newport News shipyard.
Newport News was laid down 1 November 1945, launched on 6 March 1948 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia, sponsored by Eliza S. Ferguson and commissioned on 29 January 1949, with Captain Roland N. Smoot in command. 1950–1962
Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News: 1 February 1954 2 August 1954 29 September 1956 10 August 1957 10 July 1993 Broken up at Brownsville, 2015 Independence: CV-62 New York Naval Shipyard, New York City 2 July 1954 1 July 1955 6 June 1958 10 January 1959 30 September 1998 Broken up at Brownsville, 2017