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  2. Newport News Shipbuilding - Wikipedia

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    Newport News Shipbuilding. Coordinates: 36°59′31″N76°26′42″W36.99208°N 76.44507°W. Aerial view of the Newport News shipyard in 1994. Visible in the drydocks are USS Long Beach and USNS Gilliland. Newport News Shipbuilding ( NNS ), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is the sole designer, builder, and refueler of aircraft ...

  3. Riverside Apartments - Wikipedia

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    Riverside Apartments. /  36.99111°N 76.43889°W  / 36.99111; -76.43889. Riverside Apartments, also known as Shipyard Apartments, is a historic apartment complex located at Newport News, Virginia. It was built in 1918, and consists of two, four-story, "U"-shaped brick apartment buildings decorated with simple bands of sandstone.

  4. Mariners' Museum and Park - Wikipedia

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    Newport News, Virginia United States: Coordinates: Type: Maritime: Website: www.marinersmuseum.org

  5. Newport News, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Newport News is seen in the upper-left quadrant. Newport News is located at 37°4′15″N 76°29′4″W (37.071046, −76.484557). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 120 square miles (310 km 2 ), of which 69 square miles (180 km 2) is land and 51 square miles (130 km 2) (42.4%) is water.

  6. Hilton Village - Wikipedia

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    November 5, 1968 [2] Hilton Village is a planned English-village-style neighborhood in Newport News, Virginia. Recognized as a pioneering development in urban planning, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The neighborhood was built between 1918 and 1921 in response to the need for housing during World War I for employees ...

  7. USS Enterprise (CVN-65) - Wikipedia

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    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".

  8. Norfolk Naval Shipyard - Wikipedia

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    The Norfolk Naval Shipyard, often called the Norfolk Navy Yard and abbreviated as NNSY, is a U.S. Navy facility in Portsmouth, Virginia, for building, remodeling and repairing the Navy's ships. It is the oldest and largest industrial facility that belongs to the U.S. Navy as well as the most comprehensive.

  9. General Dynamics Electric Boat - Wikipedia

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    General Dynamics Electric Boat [2] ( GDEB) is a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corporation. It has been the primary builder of submarines for the United States Navy for more than 100 years. The company's main facilities are a shipyard in Groton, Connecticut, a hull-fabrication and outfitting facility in Quonset Point, Rhode Island, and a design ...

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

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    Aviation facilities. 2 × aircraft catapults. Helipad (later conversion) 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.

  11. Category:Ships built in Newport News, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    SS Cape Jacob. USS Carl Vinson. USS Casa Grande. USS Catamount. Charles N. Curtis - Sea Scout Ship 110. USS Charleston (C-22) USS Charleston (LKA-113) USS Charlotte (SSN-766) USS Cheyenne (SSN-773)