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2. Norfolk Naval Shipyard - Wikipedia

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   The Norfolk Naval Shipyard, often called the Norfolk Navy Yard and abbreviated as NNSY, is a U.S. Navy facility in Portsmouth, Virginia, for building, remodeling and repairing the Navy's ships. It is the oldest and largest industrial facility that belongs to the U.S. Navy as well as the most comprehensive.

3. Lambert's Point Deperming Station - Wikipedia

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   The station, which is administered by Naval Station Norfolk, [1] consists of two parallel pile-supported piers, roughly 1140 ft. (345 m.) in length, which form a slip that can accommodate all Navy and Coast Guard ships up to and including the largest warships afloat, the Nimitz class aircraft carriers. There is a second pier for smaller vessels ...

4. Drydock Number One, Norfolk Naval Shipyard - Wikipedia

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   The shipyard was then taken over by the Confederate Navy, which was a severe blow to the Union, [8] and it was here that USS Merrimack was modified to become the ironclad CSS Virginia. [ 4 ] Today, Drydock Number One is still in operation, used primarily to service U.S. Navy vessels.

5. Naval Station Norfolk - Wikipedia

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   Naval Station Norfolk is a United States Navy base in Norfolk, Virginia, that is the headquarters and home port of the U.S. Navy's Fleet Forces Command.The installation occupies about 4 miles (6.4 km) of waterfront space and 11 miles (18 km) of pier and wharf space of the Hampton Roads peninsula known as Sewell's Point.

6. Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Norfolk - Wikipedia

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   Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Norfolk was a part of the United States Navy reserve fleets, also called a mothball fleet, and was used to store the many surplus ships after World War II. The Atlantic Reserve Fleet was just south of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard , called the South Gate Annex in Portsmouth, Virginia , 2 mi (3.2 km) south of Norfolk, Virginia .

7. Moored training ship - Wikipedia

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   A moored training ship (MTS) is a United States Navy nuclear powered submarine that has been converted to a training ship for the Nuclear Power Training Unit (NPTU) at Naval Support Activity Charleston in South Carolina. The Navy uses decommissioned nuclear submarines and converts them to MTSs to train personnel in the operation and maintenance ...