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Learn about the history and operations of Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries and the sole designer and builder of aircraft carriers for the US Navy. The shipyard, founded in 1886, has built more than 800 ships and is a major employer in Virginia and North Carolina.
Learn about the history and operations of the oldest and largest U.S. Navy facility for building and repairing ships. The shipyard, formerly known as Gosport Shipyard, was founded in 1767 and has survived wars, epidemics and technological advances.
USS Intrepid (CV-11) was an Essex-class aircraft carrier in the US Navy during World War II and the Cold War. She participated in several campaigns in the Pacific and Atlantic, and was later converted to a museum ship in New York City.
Newport News is an independent city in southeastern Virginia, on the northern shore of the James River. It was part of Warwick County until 1896, when it was incorporated as a city.
It was the first time Wyand, a Navy veteran who lived and worked at the shipyard in the late 1980s, learned he may have been exposed to radium-226 and strontium-90 — radionuclides that build up ...
USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the eighth ship to bear the name. She was commissioned in 1961 and decommissioned in 2017, after over 55 years of service and multiple refits and upgrades.
SS United States is a retired ocean liner built in the 1950s for United States Lines. She is the fastest Atlantic liner and the largest American-built ship, but has been laid up in Philadelphia since 1994.
The Dorothy was designed by Horace See and built in 1890 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company of Newport News, Virginia for Captain James P. Sheffield of Norfolk. [4] The tugboat was named for Dorothy Whitney, the daughter of former Secretary of the Navy William C. Whitney. [5]