The day was September 24. The year – 1960. The U.S.S. Enterprise was christened at Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. Some 1,200 people attend the ceremony. Mrs. William B. Franke ...

The new Enterprise will use two nuclear reactors versus eight on CVN-65, which was decommissioned ... on the spot instead of having to leave the dry dock, find the blueprint and then return ...

The Navy awarded Newport News Shipbuilding $25.5 million to begin advance fabrication of aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVN-80 ... Kennedy’s dry dock as part of a unique “superlift” event.

Ford-class aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVN 80), allowing the shipyard to begin the concurrent assembly of two Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers in the same dry dock. The evolution began ...

USS ENTERPRISE, At Sea -- USS Enterprise (CVN 65) Weapons Department completed the ... from Enterprise to Military Sealift Command dry cargo and ammunition ships USNS Matthew Perry (T-AKE 9 ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – The inactivation of the former USS Enterprise (CVN 65), the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is now complete, Huntington Ingalls announced. During the ...

Others look at the primitive technology in America's ancient shipyards and wonder if the Navy has sufficient dry dock space ... Kennedy (CVN 79) and USS Enterprise (CVN 80), are already under ...

Newport News Shipbuilding has modified Dry Dock 12, shown here with with a mid section of carrier Enterprise , to work on two carriers at one time. (Michael Fabey) Completing another renovation of ...