Newport News Shipbuilding
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Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is the sole designer, builder, and refueler of aircraft carriers and one of two providers of submarines for the United States Na
Aerial view of the Newport News shipyard in 1994. Visible in the drydocks are USS Long Beach and USNS Gilliland
An 1899 advertisement for the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Cranes of Newport News Shipbuilding seen from the James River Bridge, 2020
The shipyard's railroad system
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)
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USS Abraham Lincoln is the fifth Nimitz-class aircraft carrier in the United States Navy. It is the third Navy ship to have been named after the former president Abraham Lincoln. Its home port is NAS
Newport News Shipbuilding
…work. The yard has completed RCOH for five Nimitz-class carriers (USS Nimitz, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, USS Carl Vinson, USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Abraham Lincoln). As of November 2017, this work was underway for the Nimitz-class vessel USS George Washington. Industrialist Collis P. Huntington (1821–1900) provided…
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)
Abraham Carrier Battle group shortly before Operation Fiery Vigil, 1991
Abraham Lincoln returning to port carrying the Mission Accomplished banner, 2 May 2003
A mock-up of the fictional F/A-37 Talon aboard Abraham Lincoln during production of the film Stealth, 2004