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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. List of ship launches in 1969 - Wikipedia

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    Newport News Shipbuilding: Newport News: El Paso: Charleston-class amphibious cargo ship For United States Navy: 17 May United States: Electric Boat: Groton, Connecticut: Flying Fish: Sturgeon-class submarine For United States Navy: 24 May United States: Ingalls Shipbuilding: Pascagoula, Mississippi: Inchon: Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ...

  4. Emergency Shipbuilding Program - Wikipedia

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    Newport News Shipbuilding: Newport News, Virginia 1940 C2 type, C3 type, P4 type, T3 type number 18 ships for MC (remainder for USN) Bethlehem Staten Island: Staten Island, New York January 1941 C1 type number 5 ships for MC (remainder for USN) Bath Iron Works: Bath, Maine August 1941 C2 type number 4 ships for MC (remainder for USN) Bethlehem ...

  5. A new Virginia-class submarine has been delivered to the U.S. Navy: The future USS New Jersey. The fast-attack submarine was accepted from Huntington Ingalls Industries' Newport News...

  6. Northrop Grumman Ship Systems - Wikipedia

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    NorthropGrumman.com. Northrop Grumman Ship Systems ( NGSS) was a former sector or division of Northrop Grumman Corporation which was responsible for building small and medium shipping products. It was merged with another sector of Northrop Grumman, Northrop Grumman Newport News, which was responsible for building nuclear submarines and ...

  7. Hilton Village - Wikipedia

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    Newport News Shipbuilding had many contracts to build naval ships and was hiring thousands of employees. Shipyard workers were being housed in overcrowded and/or temporary quarters. The emerging community of Newport News faced a severe housing shortage. This led to the construction of Hilton Village.

  8. Newport News Shipbuilders - Wikipedia

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    Newport News Shipbuilders (1912–1922) Ballpark. Lincoln Park (1900–1901) Horowitz Field (1911–1922) The Newport News Shipbuilders were a minor league baseball team based in Newport News, Virginia. The Shipbuilders first played as members of the Virginia League in 1900 and the 1901 Virginia-North Carolina League.

  9. Jennifer Boykin - Wikipedia

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    She is the first woman president of Newport News Shipbuilding, the first in over 133 years of operation. She runs the largest shipbuilding operations in the United States, including the only one that builds nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and one of two that makes nuclear-powered submarines.

  10. 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.

  11. Shipyard - Wikipedia

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    Davie Shipbuilding, (formerly Chantier Davie Canada Inc) in Lévis, Québec, is the oldest continually operating shipbuilder in North America. Newport News Shipbuilding, (formerly Northrop Grumman Newport News) is the largest private ship builder in the US and the one best known for its unique capacity to build the Nimitz-class aircraft carriers.