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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 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]
Aircraft carriers stored at the NISMF in Bremerton, 2012.From left to right: Independence, Kitty Hawk, Constellation and Ranger. A Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF) is a facility owned by the United States Navy as a holding facility for decommissioned naval vessels, pending determination of their final fate.
At the time, the ship was docked in Virginia at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek–Fort Story, its home base. [45] Most of the roughly 400 crew members were brought ashore while the ship was being sanitized. [45] USS San Diego in 2014 Two sailors fighting the fire aboard USS Bonhomme Richard at San Diego had contracted the virus
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 ...
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 Norfolk (SSN-815) will be a nuclear-powered Virginia-class submarine of the United States Navy, the second Block VI attack submarines and 42nd overall of her class. She will be the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name Norfolk , the name previously belonged to a Los Angeles-class submarine .
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