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Norfolk Naval Shipyard. The Norfolk Naval Shipyard, often called the Norfolk Navy Yard and abbreviated as NNSY, is a U.S. Navy facility in Portsmouth, Virginia, for building, remodeling and repairing the Navy's ships. It is the oldest and largest industrial facility that belongs to the U.S. Navy as well as the most comprehensive.
December 2, 1969 [1] Drydock Number One is the oldest operational drydock facility in the United States. Located in Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, it was put into service in 1834, and has been in service since then. Its history includes the refitting of USS Merrimack, which was modified to be the Confederate Navy ironclad CSS ...
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 × .50-caliber M2HB machine gun. 6 × Mk 38 25 mm cannons. USS Saipan (LHA-2) was a Tarawa -class amphibious assault ship, the second United States Navy ship named in honor of the World War II Battle of Saipan. Commissioned in 1977, the ship saw service until 2007 when she was decommissioned. In 2009 the ship was sold for scrapping .
4 EA-6B Prowler, 4 E-2C Hawkeye, 8 S-3/ES-3 Viking, 3 SH-60F Seahawk, 2 HH-60 Seahawk. The fifth USS Independence (CV/CVA-62) was an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. She was the fourth and final member of the Forrestal class of conventionally powered supercarriers. She entered service in 1959, with much of her early years spent in ...
USS Minnesota (SSN-783) is a nuclear powered fast attack submarine, the 10th of the Virginia -class. She is the third United States Navy vessel to bear the name and the second of two named for the state, while the other was named for the Minnesota River . Minnesota was laid down on 20 May 2011, and christened on 27 October 2012 in a ceremony ...
140 enlisted [1] [2] Armament. MK-48 torpedoes. 20 × Trident II D-5 ballistic missiles. USS Rhode Island (SSBN-740) is a United States Navy Ohio -class ballistic missile submarine which has been in commission since 1994. She is the third U.S. Navy ship to be named for Rhode Island, the 13th state.
No hangar facility. USS South Carolina (CGN-37) was the second ship of the California class of nuclear-powered guided missile cruisers in the United States Navy . USS South Carolina and her sister ship, USS Virgina, were equipped with two Mk-13 launchers, fore and aft, for the RIM-24 Tartar surface-to-air missiles, ASROC missiles, and Harpoon ...