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Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is the sole designer, builder, and refueler of aircraft carriers and one of two providers of submarines for the United States Navy. Founded as the Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Co. in 1886, Newport News Shipbuilding has built more than 800 ships, including both ...
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The Dorothy was designed by Horace See and built in 1890 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company of Newport News, Virginia for Captain James P. Sheffield of Norfolk. [4] The tugboat was named for Dorothy Whitney , the daughter of former Secretary of the Navy William C. Whitney .
Diagram illustrating the effects of moving the slide of a brass instrument. Date: 5 August 2007: Source: Created by bdesham in Inkscape. Author: Benjamin D. Esham : Permission (Reusing this file) As a courtesy (but not a requirement), please e-mail me or leave a note on my talk page if you use this image outside of Wikipedia. Thanks!
The first of these types was the Stölzel valve, bearing the name of its inventor Heinrich Stölzel, who first applied these valves to the French horn in 1814. Until that point, there had been no successful valve design, and horn players had to stop off the bell of the instrument, greatly compromising tone quality to achieve a partial chromatic scale.
[3] [4] They had a beam of 69 ft 6 in (21.2 m), a draft forward of 11 ft 5 in (3.5 m) and 17 ft 5 in (5.3 m) at the stern at full load. [ 5 ] The first three ships of the class were fitted with six General Motors 16-645-ES diesel engines , while the remainder of the class were fitted with six ALCO 16-251 diesel engines turning two shafts ...
Lockley Newport Boats was an American boat builder based in Newport Beach, California.The company specialized in the design and manufacture of fiberglass sailboats. [1] [2]The company was founded in 1964 and went though several name changes and changes of ownership prior to going out of business in 1988.