Newport News Shipbuilding

USA Est. 1886

The yard that builds aircraft carriers. Newport News is the only shipyard in the Western Hemisphere capable of building nuclear-powered carriers. Located in Virginia, it has built every US Navy carrier since USS Enterprise (CVN-65).

Heritage

From WWII fleet carriers to modern supercarriers, Newport News has been the heart of American naval aviation's floating airfields for nearly a century. Now part of Huntington Ingalls Industries, it remains irreplaceable — there is literally no other yard that can do what it does.

Vessels (1)

USS Enterprise (CV-6)

USS Enterprise earned 20 battle stars, more than any other US warship in World War II. She fought at Midway, the Eastern Solomons, the Santa Cruz Islands, Guadalcanal, the Philippine Sea, Leyte Gulf, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. She was in the fight from two weeks after Pearl Harbor to the Japanese surrender. The Japanese reported sinking her three times. She kept coming back. Enterprise was the ship that proved the aircraft carrier had replaced the battleship as the dominant weapon in naval warfare. Her air groups sank more enemy tonnage than any other carrier's. And when the war ended, she was sold for scrap. No museum. No memorial. The most decorated warship in American history was cut apart for razor blades and rebar. It remains one of the great preservation failures in naval history.

1938-1947 · warship