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The lightweight 16-in/50 Mark 7 was designed to resolve this conflict. These guns were 50 calibers long, 50 times their 16-inch (406 mm) bore diameter with barrels 66.7 ft (20.3 m) long, from chamber to muzzle. Each gun weighed about 239,000 lb (108 t) without the breech, and 267,900 lb (121.5 t) with the breech. [1]
The New York Times regarded this sale price to be "astounding low". [28] In July 1948, Federal's large floating dry dock was towed 1,700 miles in 19 days to Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation's Chickasaw, Alabama, shipyard, which had been constructed during World War I by U.S. Steel, parent of Federal SB&DD. [29]
The Bluenose is a Canadian sailboat, that was designed by William James Roué as a one design racer and first built in 1946. Roué was also the designer of the Bluenose racing schooner, built in 1921.
Decommissioned: 16 September 1988. Disposed of by Navy title transfer to the Maritime Administration, 28 March 1994 FFG-2 Ramsey: 1967 Brooke class Decommissioned: 1 September 1988. Sunk as a target, 15 June 2000 FFG-3 Schofield: 1968 Brooke class Decommissioned: 8 September 1988. Sunk as a target, 2 November 1999 FFG-4 Talbot: 1967 Brooke class
The hull classification symbols for these craft begin with (Y). Ship status is indicated as either currently active [A] (including ready reserve), inactive [I], or precommissioning [P]. Ships in the inactive category include only ships in the inactive reserve, ships which have been disposed from US service have no listed status.
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Aerial view of the Newport News shipyard in 1994. Visible in the drydocks are USS Long Beach and USNS Gilliland. 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.