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2. John Cassin (naval officer) - Wikipedia

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   Commands held. Norfolk Naval Shipyard. Battles/wars. American Revolutionary War. Battle of Trenton. War of 1812. Spouse (s) Ann Wilcox. Commodore John Cassin (July 16, 1760 – March 24, 1822) was a United States Navy officer, who led the vital defense of Gosport Navy Yard during the War of 1812 and served as its Commandant.

3. USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) - Wikipedia

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   1 C-2A Greyhound carrier on-board delivery. USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), formerly CVA-63, was a United States Navy supercarrier. She was the second naval ship named after Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the site of the Wright brothers ' first powered airplane flight. Kitty Hawk was the first of the three Kitty Hawk -class aircraft carriers to be ...

4. Norfolk Naval Shipyard - Wikipedia

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   Norfolk Naval Shipyard. 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.

5. Chesapeake woman’s 60 years of civil service begin and end ...

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   Margaret Stroud looked up at Norfolk Naval Shipyard’s historic “hammerhead crane” in June 1963 as she walked through the gates toward her new job. She was 21 and excited about the future On ...

6. Andrew Sprowle - Wikipedia

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   Known for. founding Gosport Ship Yard (now Norfolk Naval Shipyard) Andrew Sprowle (1710 – 1776) was a Scottish-born merchant, naval agent, landowner, shipyard owner, slaveholder and slave trader in Portsmouth, Virginia. Today Andrew Sprowle is best remembered for establishing the Gosport Ship Yard, now known as Norfolk Naval Shipyard.

7. 1967 USS Forrestal fire - Wikipedia

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   161 injured [ 2] On 29 July 1967, a fire broke out on board the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal after an electrical anomaly caused a Zuni rocket on an F-4B Phantom to fire, striking an external fuel tank of an A-4 Skyhawk. The flammable jet fuel spilled across the flight deck, ignited, and triggered a chain reaction of explosions that killed 134 ...