The “Connecticut,” built at the Brooklyn navy yard, and the “Louisiana,” built at Newport News ... at 3,000 yards. The fire in any direction from these ships is heavy, consisting of ...

1845 – Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” was published for the first time in the “New York Evening Mirror.” 1848 – Greenwich Mean Time was adopted by Scotland. 1850 – Henry Clay introduced in the Senate a ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

Virginia’s shipbuilding industry has been a cornerstone of the state’s economy for generations, playing a crucial role in national defense and commerce. However, this industry’s legacy includes a dark ...

Photo courtesy Edward Lundquist HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division successfully undocked USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000), the lead ship of the ... of the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS ...

Huntingdon Ingalls Industries (HII) has released its financial report for 2024, revealing US$11.5 billion in revenue across ...

Forget Will Smith's notorious slap, or Faye Dunaway accidentally announcing the wrong winner, this year's Academy Awards are ...

During one cruise, with 14,000 American troops headed to Australia, German spies in Rio de Janeiro intercepted the ship's planned route ... the two towns, plus Newport, which had removed itself ...

William McCarty, who represented the Carrollton area on Isle of Wight County’s Board of Supervisors, died unexpectedly Jan.

Asbestos was used to help protect different areas of U.S. Navy ships, especially those where heat, fire, and machinery posed significant ... The USS Nimitz, which was constructed in Newport News, ...