Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Newport News (/ ˌnuːpɔːrt -, - pərt -/) [6] is an independent city in southeastern Virginia, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 186,247. [5] Located in the Hampton Roads region, it is the fifth-most populous city in Virginia and 140th-most populous city in the United States. The city is at the southeastern end of the ...
The United States Congress authorized the construction of Texas, the second Navy ship to be named after that state, on 24 June 1910. [16] [17] Bids for Texas were accepted from 27 September to 1 December with the winning bid of $5,830,000—excluding the price of armor and armament—submitted by Newport News Shipbuilding.
S.S. Finland in the city of New York, 1906 USS Finland in the port of Newport News with returning troops, circa 1919. MV Funchal: 1961 Awaiting conversion as a hotelship in Lisbon, Portugal SS Gallia: 1913 Torpedoed and sunk, October 4, 1916 S.S. Gallia in the year 1913: MS Georges Philippar: 1930 Caught fire, and sank on May 19, 1932
Hampton is a Hampton Roads community. The Hampton Roads area consists of nine independent cities (which are not part of any county). Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk, and Virginia Beach cover the Southside of Hampton Roads while Hampton, Newport News, Poquoson, and Williamsburg are on the Peninsula.
Colonial history In December 1606, three ships carrying men and boys left England on a mission sponsored by a proprietary company. Led by Captain Christopher Newport, they sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to North America.
List of shipwrecks: 23 March 1942. Ship. State. Description. HMS Breconshire. Royal Navy. World War II: The stores shipwas bombed and damaged in the Mediterranean Seaoff Maltaby aircraft of II Fliegerkorps, Luftwaffe. She was beached in Marsaxlokk Bay, Malta but capsized and sank on 27 March.
The Intrepid Museum (originally the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum) is an American military and maritime history museum in New York City. It is located at Pier 86 at 46th Street, along the Hudson River, in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood on the West Side of Manhattan. The museum is mostly composed of exhibits, aircraft, and spacecraft aboard the museum ship USS Intrepid, a World War II ...
Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) is a retired British passenger ship converted into a floating hotel. Originally built for the Cunard Line, the ship was operated by Cunard as both a transatlantic liner and a cruise ship from 1969 to 2008. She was then laid up until converted and since 18 April 2018 has been operating as a floating hotel in Dubai.