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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 both ...
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
The ship returned from deployment in May 1997. On 8 July 1997, Theodore Roosevelt entered the Newport News Shipbuilding yard for a one-year Extended Drydock and Selected Restricted Availability (EDSRA), her first major overhaul since commissioning. Theodore Roosevelt returned to her homeport of Norfolk Naval Station on 2 July 1998. [citation ...
Newport News Shipbuilding: Newport News, Virginia: Sea Devil: Sturgeon-class submarine 7 October United States: Lockheed Shipbuilding: Seattle, Washington: Nashville: Austin-class amphibious transport dock 7 October Australia: Aware: Attack-class patrol boat 14 October West Germany: Blohm + Voss: Hamburg: Polar Colombia: Polar-Ecuador-class ...
Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News: 12 July 1951 14 July 1952 11 December 1954 1 October 1955 11 September 1993 Broken up at Brownsville, 2014 Saratoga: CV-60 New York Naval Shipyard, New York City 23 July 1952 16 December 1952 8 October 1955 14 April 1956 20 August 1994 Broken up at Brownsville, 2014 Ranger: CV-61
Horowitz Field (1911–1922) The Newport News Shipbuilders were a minor league baseball team based in Newport News, Virginia. The Shipbuilders first played as members of the Virginia League in 1900 and the 1901 Virginia-North Carolina League. Newport News then resumed minor league play in the 1911 season as a member of the short lived Tidewater ...
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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.