Norfolk Naval Shipyard Virginia
Norfolk Naval Shipyard is a US Navy-operated shipyard located in Portsmouth, Virginia. The shipyard is in charge with building, remodeling, maintaining, upgrading, overhauling, and repairing all types of ships from tug ships to aircraft carriers to submarines of the US Navy. Having been built in the 1767, it is the Navy’s oldest as well as its largest industrial facility.
The shipyard was originally British property named Gosport Shipyard and operated to support naval ships under the British Crown. During the American Revolution, the American government confiscated the shipyard.
It was only during the American Civil War that the shipyard adopted its present name after its fall to the confederate forces.
At present, the shipyard’s 6,750 civilian and military personnel work on 15% of the Navy’s active fleet at any given day.
Location: 36.8201, -76.3009
Phone: (757) 396-3000
DSN: 961-3000August 2, 2011
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