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

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   Newport News was laid down 1 November 1945, launched on 6 March 1948 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia, sponsored by Eliza S. Ferguson and commissioned on 29 January 1949, with Captain Roland N. Smoot in command.

3. Collis Potter Huntington - Wikipedia

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   Collis Potter Huntington (October 22, 1821 – August 13, 1900) [2] was an American industrialist and railway magnate. He was one of the Big Four of western railroading (along with Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker) who invested in Theodore Judah's idea to build the Central Pacific Railroad as part of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad. [3]

4. Virginia Peninsula - Wikipedia

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   Within only 15 years, a rural farm community in Warwick County turned into the new independent city of Newport News, Virginia, by 1896 as new coal piers brought ships to what would become the world's largest shipyard, Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. Hotels, houses, schools and businesses sprung up there, and at many points along ...

5. The Apprentice School - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. List of passenger ships built in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company in Newport News, Virginia: Scrapped 1964 SS Pennsylvania: 1929 Panama Pacific Lines: Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company in Newport News, Virginia: Scrapped 1964 1930s SS Morro Castle: 1930 Ward Line: Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company in Newport News, Virginia: Theodore E ...

7. 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.