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The ship was laid down on 19 August 1972 by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company as a Destroyer Leader, Guided Missile, Nuclear, DLGN-38. Named Virginia for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the vessel was launched on 14 December 1974; sponsored by Virginia S. Warner, daughter of John Warner, a former Secretary of the Navy.
The Virginia class (also known as the CGN-38 class) were four nuclear-powered, guided-missile cruisers that served in the United States Navy until the mid-to-late 1990s. The double-ended cruisers (with missile armament carried both fore and aft) were commissioned between 1976 and 1980. [ 1 ]
USS Virginia (1797), was a 14-gun revenue cutter built in 1797 and returned to the Revenue Cutter Service in 1801; USS Virginia (1825), was a 74-gun ship of the line laid down in 1818 but never launched, and broken up on the stocks in 1874; USS Virginia (1861), was a captured Spanish blockade runner during the American Civil War and ...
The drydock can accommodate a maximum vessel length of 291.6 feet (88.9 m) with a 39.33-foot (11.99 m) beam. Depth is 30 feet (9.1 m). the dock can be dewatered in 40 minutes and flooded in 90 minutes. [5] The drydock was built between 1827 and 1834, and cost $974,365.65, a very high price at that time. [4]
CSS Virginia was the first Confederate States Navy ironclad, built using the hull of the captured USS Merrimack; CSS Virginia II, an ironclad ram. SS Virginia, an Austro-Hungarian steamship launched in 1903, renamed Kerlew and then acquired by the US Navy and named USS Kerlew; SS Brazil, a passenger steamship launched as SS Virginia, renamed in ...
During dry dock, the 887-foot-long ship will receive coatings to protect and seal its hull. Workers also will inspect and replace some of the 1,200 zinc anodes that protect the hull from corrosion
USS Arlington (LPD-24), a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, is the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for Arlington County, Virginia, the location of the Pentagon and the crash site of American Airlines Flight 77 during the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001.
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