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  2. Newport News Shipbuilding - Wikipedia

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    Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is the sole designer, builder, and refueler of aircraft carriers and one of two providers of submarines for the United States Navy. Founded as the Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Co. in 1886, Newport News Shipbuilding has built more than 800 ships, including both ...

  3. The Apprentice School - Wikipedia

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    www .as .edu. 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 Newport News in the U.S. state of Virginia. The school trains students for careers in the shipbuilding industry.

  4. History of Newport News, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Newport News was merely an area of farm lands and a fishing village until the coming of the railroad and the subsequent establishment of the great shipyard. As a 16-year-old in 1837, Collis P. Huntington had visited the rural village known as Newport News Point.

  5. USS Newport News (CA-148) - Wikipedia

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    History; United States; Name: Newport News: Namesake: Newport News: Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company: Laid down: 1 November 1945: Launched: 6 March 1948: Sponsored by: Eliza S. Ferguson: Commissioned: 29 January 1949: Decommissioned: 27 June 1975: Stricken: 31 July 1978: Identification: Callsign: NIQQ; Hull number: CA-148 ...

  6. Huntington Ingalls Industries - Wikipedia

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    HII's Newport News Shipbuilding is the only shipyard to perform refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH) work on aircraft carriers. This massive undertaking was described in a 2002 Rand Study as one of the most challenging engineering and industrial tasks undertaken anywhere by any organization.

  7. Newport News, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Newport News Shipbuilding serves as the city's largest employer with over 24,000 employees. Fort Eustis employs over 10,000, making it the second largest employer in the city. Newport News School System creates over 5,000 jobs and acts as the city's third largest employer.

  8. Timeline of Newport News, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. 1862 – Naval Battle of Hampton Roads fought near Newport News village during the American Civil War. 1880 – Old Dominion Land Company created by Collis Potter Huntington "to secure railway right-of-ways" on the Virginia Peninsula. [1] 1882 – Chesapeake and Ohio Railway begins operating. [2] 1883 – Hotel Warwick in business.

  9. USS Midway (CV-41) - Wikipedia

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    History; United States; Name: Midway: Namesake: Battle of Midway: Ordered: 1 August 1942: Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding: Laid down: 27 October 1943: Launched: 20 March 1945: Commissioned: 10 September 1945: Decommissioned: 11 April 1992: In service: 1945: Out of service: 1992: Stricken: 17 March 1997: Nickname(s) Midway Magic: Status ...

  10. Homer L. Ferguson - Wikipedia

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    He was president of Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia, from July 22, 1915, through July 31, 1946. Biography. Ferguson was born in Waynesville, North Carolina on March 6, 1873. At the age of fifteen he entered the United States Naval Academy and graduated at the head of his class in 1892.

  11. Newport News Shipbuilders - Wikipedia

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    The Newport News "Shipbuilders" nickname corresponds to local industry, history and geography. Located in the Virginia Peninsula and along the James River , the city has long been home to the shipbuilding industry. [6]