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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.
Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) is the largest U.S. military shipbuilding company and a provider of professional services. HII is named after its founders, Collis Potter Huntington and Robert Ingersoll Ingalls Sr., and operates in Virginia, Mississippi, and other locations.
USS Hampton is a Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the United States Navy. She was commissioned in 1993 and has participated in several deployments and exercises in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
The Apprentice School is a four to eight-year apprenticeship vocational school founded in 1919 and operated by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company in Virginia. It trains students for careers in the shipbuilding industry and offers associate and bachelor degrees in partnership with other institutions.
Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), is one of two nuclear shipyards in the U.S. and is currently working on building the Ford-class aircraft carrier and ...
The tankers were built in 1979 at Newport News Shipbuilding's shipyard in Newport News, Virginia. Each vessel cost approximately 136.4 million USD. [3] In June 2004, the Marine Atlantic—ex U.S.T. Atlantic—was sold to Indian breakers. After clearing Indian customs, she was intentionally beached in India for ship breaking. [4]
A Los Angeles-class submarine named after the city of Newport News, Virginia. Learn about its history, specifications, collision with a Japanese tanker, and gallery of photos.
USS Proteus was a collier ship of the United States Navy that operated from 1913 to 1924. She was sold to the Canadian Merchant Navy in 1941 and disappeared at sea without a trace.