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2. Newport News Shipbuilding - Wikipedia

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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 ). The shipyard is a major employer, not only for the lower Virginia Peninsula, but ...

3. USS Virginia (BB-13) - Wikipedia

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   Virginia. (BB-13) USS Virginia (BB-13) was a United States Navy pre-dreadnought battleship, the lead ship of her class. She was the fifth ship to carry her name. Virginia was laid down in May 1902 at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia, was launched in April 1904, and was commissioned into the fleet in ...

4. Category:Ships built in Newport News, Virginia - Wikipedia

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   SS Cape Gibson (AK-5051) SS Cape Jacob. USS Carl Vinson. USS Casa Grande. USS Catamount. Charles N. Curtis - Sea Scout Ship 110. USS Charleston (C-22) USS Charleston (LKA-113) USS Charlotte (SSN-766)

5. Homer L. Ferguson - Wikipedia

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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.

6. Dorothy (1891 tug) - Wikipedia

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   Dorothy (1891 tug) Photo of "Dorothy," c. 2007. Dorothy is a tugboat and the first ship constructed by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, currently on display in the yard. [1] Dorothy is one of the oldest surviving ships in Virginia. [2] She was built in 1890 and launched in 1891.

7. History of Newport News, Virginia - Wikipedia

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   1881–1896: tiny farming village becomes a new city. 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.

8. Timeline of Newport News, Virginia - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. 1862 – Naval Battle of Hampton Roads fought near Newport News village during the American Civil War. 1880 – Old Dominion Land Company created by Collis Potter Huntington "to secure railway right-of-ways" on the Virginia Peninsula. [1] 1882 – Chesapeake and Ohio Railway begins operating. [2] 1883 – Hotel Warwick in business.

9. USS Newport News (CA-148) - Wikipedia

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   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