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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.
She was converted for the Navy at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company and on delivery to the Navy was assigned to the Military Sealift Command on 23 August 1996 under the name USNS Gordon. [1] They are diesel-powered, 954 ft (291 m) long and 105 ft 9 in (32.23 m) wide ships. USNS Gordon (T-AKR-296) USNS Gilliland (T-AKR-298)
Lydia Weld was the first woman to graduate in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, starting her studies in 1898 and going on to work as a draughtsman in the engineering division of Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. She later became the second woman member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. [19]
The United States Shipbuilding Company was a short-lived trust made up of seven shipbuilding companies, a property owner and steel company. Its stocks and bonds were unattractive to investors, and several of its member shipyards were overvalued, conditions which brought down the company less than a year after it was formed in 1902.
Predecessors of Huntington Ingalls Industries The former Huntington Ingalls Industries logo.. When it spun off as a new company on 31 March 2011, Huntington Ingalls Industries comprised Northrop Grumman’s shipbuilding businesses in Newport News, Virginia, Pascagoula, Mississippi, and Avondale, Louisiana [8] (Closed in 2014) .
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.
U.S. Maritime Commission "Ships for Victory" emblem. The Emergency Shipbuilding Program (late 1940 – September 1945) was a United States government effort to quickly build simple cargo ships to carry troops and materiel to allies and foreign theatres during World War II.
MV Charles L. Gilliland, formerly USNS Gilliland (T-AKR-298), is a Gordon-class roll on roll off vehicle cargo ship of the United States Navy.She was originally built as a merchant vessel but later acquired and converted by the Navy, and assigned to the United States Department of Defense's Military Sealift Command. [1]