An aerial view of Newport News Shipbuilding on June 20, 2013, as the Enterprise (at bottom), is brought to her pier. Just above her is the Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), finishing up her refueling overhaul. She left Newport News on Aug. 25 to return to the fleet. The Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) is in Drydock 11, just past the floating drydock that juts into the James River at left. At top, behind the blue crane and to the right of the big blue gantry crane, is the Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), under construction in the yard’s graving dock. (Huntington Ingalls Industries photo by John Whalen)
Come Aboard USS Gerald R Ford (CVN 78), The Newest Aircraft Carrier -- Intercepts/Defense News
A rare look at three carriers at Newport News Shipbuilding.
It’s not every decade that a new aircraft carrier design comes along. But now, for the first time since the early 1970s, the first of a new class of nuclear-powered behemoths is being revealed to the public along the shores of the James River in Virginia.
The Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) is rising in a giant graving dock at the northwest end of the sprawling shipyard of Newport News Shipbuilding. Officially under construction since November 2009, the work to build the 1,092-fo0t-long ship has actually been going on for more than a decade. Hiding under scaffolding, covered in anti-rust primer, the Ford has just received a new coat of paint, part of the preparations for her public debut on Nov. 9, when ship’s sponsor Susan Ford Bales, daughter of the 38th U.S. president, will formally christen the ship.
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My Comment: An impressive photo gallery.
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Gantry Crane is really big help in moving heavy loads in the shipyard
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