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Theodore Roosevelt Commissioned (continued) 100 Years of Shipbuilding Leadership 1

The delivery to the U.S. Navy of the Theodore Roosevelt by Newport

News Shipbuilding is a fitting cli- max to this leading shipyard's year- long celebration of its 100th anni- versary.

The company's first U.S. Navy contract in 1893 was for the con- struction of three gunboats, the

Nashville, Wilmington, and Helena, and marked the beginning of a long association between Newport News

Shipbuilding and the Navy that continues today.

In early 1942, the Navy began the conversion of five light cruisers to light carriers. They were 11,000-ton, 610 foot warships capable of 32 knots and carried 35 planes. The first carrier, Independence, was fin- ished in 1943, and by the end of

World War II, 17 Essex-class and nine Independence-class carriers were operational.

During the war, the names of

Newport News-built carriers were legendary. Yorktown. Enterprise.

Essex. Intrepid. Randolph. Hornet, from which Jimmy Doolittle launched his B-25 attack against

Tokyo. And Franklin, which was the first large U.S. carrier to suffer ex- tensive damage from a kamikaze attack, limped home to the U.S. under her own power.

The post-war years saw the evolu- tion of the Midway-class carriers which were completed in 1945 to 1947, and were the first U.S. carriers to have armored flight decks. The

Midway and Essex-classes were lat- er modified for jet aircraft opera- tion.

In 1955, Newport News Ship- building built the country's first su- percarrier, the Forrestal, 1,039 feet long and designed specifically for jets. She had a large starboard "is- land" design with four deck-edge elevators that reduced the interrup- tion of flight and hanger deck activi- ties associated with center-line ele- vators.

The world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was built by New- port News Shipbuilding and deliv- ered to the Navy in 1961. Named the Enterprise, the 1,102-foot-long vessel displaces 85,350 tons and has eight nuclear reactors. During the

Vietnam War, the Enterprise was the first nuclear-powered warship to see combat.

In 1975, Newport News delivered the Nimitz, one of the largest mobile structures ever built. The Nimitz and the others in her class, the

Dwight D. Eisenhower and Carl

Vinson, are 1,092 feet long, displace 91,000 tons and carry about 100 planes and 6,000 sailors.

Newport News is currently build- ing two more Nimitz-class carriers, the Abraham Lincoln (to be deliv- ered in 1989) and the George Wash- ington (to be delivered in 1991).

For the past 50 years Newport

News Shipbuilding has been the country's premier designer and builder of 23 of the ocean's might- iest ships—the aircraft carrier.

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Artist's conception of one of the four logistic support vessels that will be built by Moss Point

Marine's Escatawpa. Miss., yard, for operation by the U.S. Army.

Moss Point Marine Awarded $40.7-Million Navy Contract

To Build Four LSVs

Moss Point Marine, Inc., has been awarded a $40.7-million U.S. Navy contract to build four logistic sup- port vehicles (LSV). According to

John Dane III, president of the

Escatawpa, Miss., yard, the contract is the largest the company has re- ceived since its founding in 1980.

The all-steel landing vessels will each be 272-feet long with 60-foot beams and depths of 16 feet 5 inches. Each LSV will be powered by two 16-cylinder engines develop- ing a total of 3,900 bhp.

The contract was awarded by the

Navy's Military Sealift Command, and the Navy's Supervisor of Ship- building, Conversion and Repair,

Pascagoula, Miss., will administer the contract. The LSVs, however, will be operated by the U.S. Army.

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Third Aegis Cruiser

PSA Awarded To Todd

According to a recent announce- ment by Todd Shipyards Corpora- tion chairman H.K. Schaefer, the

Naval Sea Systems Command has exercised its option for the Post

Shakedown Availability (PSA) of the Aegis cruiser USS Bunker Hill at the Los Angeles Division of Todd

Shipyards. Mr. Schaefer said, "the

Bunker Hill will be the third PSA performed by Todd on Aegis-equip- ped ships and will provide an excel- lent opportunity to gain more hands-on experience with Aegis ship technology." The three-ship con- tract has an estimated value of $14.8 million.

Len Thorell, vice president and general manager of Todd's Los An- geles Division, said "highly success- ful PSAs have already been com- pleted on the USS Vincennes and

USS Valley Forge. Additionally, the

Navy may exercise an option for a fourth PSA on the USS Antietam."

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