Newport News Shipbuilding; The First Century
Newport News, VA: The Mariners' Museum, 1986. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover, with slipcase. Format is approximately 12.125 inches by 9.25 inches, with a slightly larger slipcase. 256 pages. Profusely illustrated with some in color. Minor edge wear to some pages noted. Contents include: Men and Ships, Collis P. Huntington, "A Wonder of the Age", The Dreadnought Era, Homer L. Ferguson, Boom and Bust, The Thirties, Second World War, North Carolina Shipbuilding, Changing of the Guard, The Advent of Nuclear Power, Tenneco: The Turning Point, On the Leading Edge: The Second Century, The Good Ships of Newport News (lists the aircraft carriers, cruisers, submarines and others vessels built there. Tazewell was a descendant of a Virginia governor and senator, was a writer and a teacher of writing. His B.A. and M.A. degrees were from the University of Virginia, with further graduate study in English and history as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, at Ohio State, Indiana and Harvard universities, and at the University of North Carolina as a Mark Ethridge Fellow. In 1959, he joined the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot as a reporter and later served as associate editor. Collis Potter Huntington (October 22, 1821 – August 13, 1900) was an American industrialist and railway magnate. He was one of the Big Four of western railroading (along with Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker) who invested in Theodore Judah's idea to build the Central Pacific Railroad as part of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad. Huntington helped lead and develop other major interstate lines, such as the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (C&O), which he was recruited to help complete. Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is the largest industrial employer in Virginia, and sole designer, builder and refueler of United States Navy aircraft carriers and one of two providers of U.S. Navy submarines. Founded as the Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Co. in 1886, Newport News Shipbuilding has built more than 800 ships, including both naval and commercial ships. Located in the city of Newport News, its facilities span more than 550 acres, strategically positioned in one of the great harbors of the East Coast. The shipyard is a major employer, not only for the lower Virginia Peninsula, but also portions of Hampton Roads south of the James River and the harbor, portions of the Middle Peninsula region, and even some northeastern counties of North Carolina. Industrialist Collis P. Huntington (1821–1900) provided crucial funding to complete the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad (C&O) from Richmond, Virginia to the Ohio River in the early 1870s. Although originally built for general commerce, this C&O rail link to the midwest was soon also being used to transport bituminous coal from the previously isolated coalfields, adjacent to the New River and the Kanawha River in West Virginia. In 1881, the Peninsula Extension of the C&O was built from Richmond down the Virginia Peninsula to reach a new coal pier on Hampton Roads in Warwick County near the small unincorporated community of Newport News Point. However, building the railroad and coal pier was only the first part of Huntington's dreams for Newport News. In 1886, Huntington built a shipyard to repair ships servicing this transportation hub. In 1891 Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company delivered its first ship, the tugboat Dorothy. By 1897 NNS had built three warships for the US Navy: USS Nashville, Wilmington and Helena. When Collis died in 1900, his nephew Henry E. Huntington inherited much of his uncle's fortune. He also married Collis' widow Arabella Huntington, and assumed Collis' leadership role with Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. Under Henry Huntington's leadership, growth continued. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: Newport News, Virginia, Shipbuilding, Dry Dock, United States Navy, Dreadnought, Homer Ferguson, Nuclear Reactors, Naval Nuclear Propulsion, Tenneco, Aircraft Carrier, Drydock
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