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2. Hampton Roads - Wikipedia

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   Area codes. 757, 804, 948, 252. Hampton Roads is the name of a body of water in the United States that serves as a wide channel for the James, Nansemond, and Elizabeth rivers between Old Point Comfort and Sewell's Point near where the Chesapeake Bay flows into the Atlantic Ocean. It also gave its name to the surrounding metropolitan region ...

3. Newport News, Virginia - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. USS Texas (BB-35) - Wikipedia

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   Designated NHL. 8 December 1976 [3] USS Texas (BB-35) is a museum ship in Galveston and former United States Navy New York -class battleship. She was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned on 12 March 1914. [4][5] Texas served in Mexican waters following the "Tampico Incident" but saw no action there, and made numerous sorties into the North ...

5. Portsmouth, Virginia - Wikipedia

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   The Confederates burned the shipyard again when they left in May 1862. [citation needed] Following the recapture of Norfolk and Portsmouth by the Union forces, the name of the shipyard was changed to Norfolk Naval Shipyard. The name of the shipyard was derived from its location in Norfolk County. The Norfolk Naval Shipyard today is located ...

6. List of interurban railways in North America - Wikipedia

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   Shipyard Railway [citation needed] 1943 1945 Southern Pacific Company [1] ... Newport News and Hampton Railway, Gas and Electric Company [1] Norfolk Southern Railroad [1]

7. EPR (nuclear reactor) - Wikipedia

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   In October 2008, Areva announced that it would partner with US defense firm Northrop Grumman to establish a $380 million facility to construct modules and assemblies for the EPR and US-EPR reactors at Northrop Grumman's Newport News Shipyard in Virginia. [209] [210] The project was suspended indefinitely in May 2011. [211]

8. Shipbuilding - Wikipedia

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   Shipbuilding and ship repairs, both commercial and military, are referred to as naval engineering. The construction of boats is a similar activity called boat building. The dismantling of ships is called ship breaking. The earliest evidence of maritime transport by modern humans is the settlement of Australia between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago.

9. List of schooners - Wikipedia

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   Columbia is an exact replica of the 1923 Gloucester fishing and racing schooner of the same name. She is a privately owned vessel. Her lines have been converted from wood to steel, and she was built by the owner in his shipyard Eastern Shipbuilding Group Inc. | Gaff Coronet: 1885 Brooklyn, New York/Newport, Rhode Island