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USS Princess Matoika (ID-2290) was a transport ship for the United States Navy during World War I.Before the war, she was a Barbarossa-class ocean liner that sailed as SS Kiautschou for the Hamburg America Line and as SS Princess Alice (sometimes spelled Prinzess Alice) for North German Lloyd.
The Dorchester had been a 5,649 ton civilian liner, 368 feet long with a 52-foot beam and a single funnel, originally built in 1926 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, for the Merchants and Miners Line, operating ships from Baltimore to Florida, carrying both freight and passengers. [13]
On 1 October 2019, the ship's crew was activated for the first time as Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU) John F. Kennedy at a ceremony aboard the vessel at Newport News Shipbuilding. [23] On 29 October 2019, Newport News Shipbuilding began flooding the dry dock where John F. Kennedy has been under construction. The process of filling the dry dock ...
Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American multinational aerospace and defense company. With 95,000 employees [3] and an annual revenue in excess of $30 billion, it is one of the world's largest weapons manufacturers and military technology providers.
USS Texas (SSN-775) is a Virginia-class submarine, and the fourth warship of the United States Navy to be named after the US state of Texas.. The contract to build her was awarded to the Northrop Grumman Newport News shipyard (then called Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.) on 30 September 1998 and her keel was laid down on 12 July 2002. [1]
ABC News stated, "Two samples were taken from bin Laden: one of these DNA samples was analyzed, and information was sent electronically back to Washington, D.C., from Bagram. Someone else from Afghanistan is physically bringing back a sample." [136] A military medic took bone marrow and swabs from the body to use for the DNA testing. [54]
Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. James Madison: 3 December 1962 20 December 1963 2 December 1964 31 July 1989 1 April 2021 Daniel Webster: SSBN-626 General Dynamics Electric Boat: Lafayette: 28 December 1961 27 April 1963 9 April 1964 30 August 1990 December 2023 La Jolla: SSN-701 General Dynamics Electric Boat: Los Angeles: 16 October ...
USAHS Acadia was the first United States Army Hospital Ship in World War II. Built in 1932 by Newport News Shipbuilding as a civilian passenger/cargo ocean liner for the Eastern Steamship Lines, the ship was in US coastal and Caribbean service prior to its acquisition by the US Maritime Administration in 1941.