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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 ...
USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy and the lead ship of her class. The ship is named after the 38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford, whose World War II naval service included combat duty aboard the light aircraft carrier Monterey in the Pacific Theater. [17]
Newport News Shipbuilding used a full-scale three-dimensional product model developed in Dassault Systèmes CATIA V5 to design and plan the construction of the Gerald R. Ford class of aircraft carriers. [52] The CVN 78 class was designed to have better weapons movement paths, largely eliminating horizontal movements within the ship.
USS Enterprise (CVN-65), formerly CVA (N)-65, is a decommissioned [12] United States Navy aircraft carrier. In 1958 she was the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the eighth United States naval vessel to bear the name. Like her predecessor of World War II fame, she is nicknamed "Big E".
Armor. Unknown. Aircraft carried. 90 fixed wing and helicopters. USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) is a Nimitz -class, nuclear-powered supercarrier in the service of the United States Navy. The ninth ship of her class, [6] she is named in honor of Ronald Reagan, President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
Manuela 1934 built by Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company, Newport News. On 24 June 1942 torpedoed and damaged by German submarine U.404 while in convoy with the loss of 2 lives, on 25 June 1942 sank. 4,772 tons. [37] Margaret 1916 built by Maryland Steel Co., Sparrow's Point, Maryland. On 15 April 1942 was torpedoed and sunk by German ...
History. The nuclear-powered USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) was contracted on 29 March 1988, and the keel was laid on 13 March 1991 at Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia. The ship was christened on 11 November 1993, in honor of Senator John Cornelius Stennis (D-Mississippi) who served in the Senate from 1947 to 1989.
Aviation facilities. 3 × elevators. 3 × catapults. USS Ranger (CV-4) was an interwar United States Navy aircraft carrier, the only ship of its class. As a Treaty ship, Ranger was the first U.S. vessel to be designed and built from the keel up as a carrier. She was relatively small, just 730 ft (222.5 m) long and under 15,000 long tons (15,000 ...