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In 1896, the first segregated white high school in Newport News was in the First National Bank building at Washington Ave. & 28th Street. Its first principal was Horace H. Epes. [1] It later held classes at Central School from 1899 until Central School burned down in 1913.
USS Newport News (CA–148) was the third and last ship of the Des Moines-class of heavy cruisers in the United States Navy.She was the first fully air-conditioned surface ship and the last active all-gun heavy cruiser in the United States Navy.
Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News: 4 February 1971 6 April 1974 19 February 1977 11 March 1978 29 July 1996 18 years, 4 months and 18 days Disposed of by submarine recycling [42] N/A [43] Groton: SSN-694 General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton: 31 January 1971 3 August 1973 9 October 1976 8 July 1978 7 November 1997 19 years, 3 months and ...
It was named after Homer L. Ferguson, the president of Newport News Shipbuilding from July 22, 1915, until July 31, 1946. It was operated by Newport News Public Schools . The building opened as Warwick Junior High School in 1956 [ 1 ] and became Ferguson High School in 1961.
Dorchester, one of three identical ships, the first being Chatham (torpedoed and sunk August 27, 1942) and the last being Fairfax, was built for the Merchants and Miners Transportation Company by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. [4] Keel laying was September 10, 1925 with launching on March 20, 1926, and delivery on July 17 ...
Seabulk Pride, operated by Seabulk Tankers of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, is a double-hulled oil tanker constructed in 1998 at Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia. She was built as part of a series of new double hulled tankers serving the domestic market. Seabulk Pride ran aground near the port of Nikiski, Alaska on February 2, 2006.
He was at the Columbian Iron Works, Baltimore, Maryland, 1895–1896; at the Navy Yard, Portland, Oregon, 1896–1899; the Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, 1899–1900; at the Bath Iron Works, in Bath, Maine as Superintending Naval Constructor, 1900–1902; the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company at Newport News, Virginia, 1902 ...
It encompasses 451 contributing buildings in a primarily residential section of Newport News. It is a compact, middle-class and upper middle-class residential neighborhood that arose during the period 1900–1935 in association with the nearby Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company.