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Aviation facilities. 2 × aircraft catapults. Helipad (later conversion) 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.
Charlotte. (SSN-766) USS Charlotte (SSN-766), a Los Angeles -class submarine, is the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for Charlotte, North Carolina. The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia on 6 February 1987 and her keel was laid down on 17 August 1990.
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 ...
Aircraft carried. More than 80, can hold up to 90 combat aircraft. Aviation facilities. 1,092 ft × 256 ft (333 m × 78 m) flight deck. USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) is the second Gerald R. Ford -class aircraft carrier built for the United States Navy. She was launched on 29 October 2019, and christened on 7 December 2019.
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 ...
The nuclear-powered USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) was contracted on 29 March 1988, and the keel was laid on 13 March 1991 at Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia . The ship was christened on 11 November 1993, in honor of Senator John Cornelius Stennis (D-Mississippi) who served in the Senate from 1947 to 1989.
USS Mount Whitney. USS. Mount Whitney. USS Mount Whitney (LCC/JCC 20) is one of two Blue Ridge -class amphibious command ships of the United States Navy and is the flagship and command ship of the United States Sixth Fleet. USS Mount Whitney also serves as the Afloat Command Platform (ACP) of Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (STRIKFORNATO).
Ballpark. Lincoln Park (1900–1901) 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 ...