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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]
Location: Bounded by the James River, Post St., Chesapeake and Ohio RR tracks, and Hopkins St., Newport News, Virginia Coordinates: Area: 100 acres (40 ha) Built: 1917-1921
The Dorothy was designed by Horace See and built in 1890 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company of Newport News, Virginia for Captain James P. Sheffield of Norfolk. [4] The tugboat was named for Dorothy Whitney, the daughter of former Secretary of the Navy William C. Whitney. [5]
The first Newport News Public Library, renamed West Avenue Library, now NNPLS Technical Services, in the Newport News Public Library System, was opened on October 14, 1929 at the corner of West Avenue and 30th Street in the City of Newport News, Virginia. This building was the first to be built in Newport News for the express purpose of being a ...
Charlotte County: 037: Charlotte Court House: 1765: From Lunenburg county: Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, wife of King George III of Great Britain: 11,336: 475 sq mi (1,230 km 2) Chesterfield County: 041: Chesterfield: 1749: From Henrico County: Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, British politician and Lord of the Bedchamber ...
No Easy Journey, on Huntington's role in the campaign against segregation, Newport News, Va., Daily Press, republished in Newsday.; Thad Madden, biography from Virginia Sports Hall of Fame and Museum; biography from Athletic Hall of Fame of the Lower Virginia Peninsula.
Built as El Sud in 1892 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, in Newport News, Virginia for the Southern Pacific Railroad's Morgan Line. [4] The Navy acquired El Sud on 6 April 1898, at the beginning of the Spanish–American War and renamed her Yosemite. It commissioned her on 13 April 1898 under Commander William H. Emory.
USS Woodrow Wilson (SSBN-624), a Lafayette class ballistic missile submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924), the 28th President of the United States (1913–1921).