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Rebirth of a schooner: The troubled Virginia set to take center stage at OpSail 2012
There was a time when it looked as if the schooner Virginia was cursed. Severe money problems, a muddled mission, political bickering and cracked masts — all of that and more plagued the wooden sailing vessel, a reproduction of a 1917 pilot...
Tags: Auction Service, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Sailing, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Maritime History
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From Newport News to Midway: The Yorktown's final battle
When the USS Yorktown returned to Pearl Harbor after the Battle of Coral Sea on May 27, 1942, the Newport News-built aircraft carrier needed by some estimates at least three months' worth of repairs.
Craig Symonds, a Naval Academy historian writes in his...Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), Aircraft Carriers, World War II (1939-1945), Pacific Ocean
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From Newport News to Midway: USS Yorktown a shot in the arm for the shipyard
The USS Yorktown, which was sunk at Midway 70 years ago Tuesday, was more than a notable casualty in a decisive World War II battle.
The Yorktown, along with its sister ship the Enterprise, were part of a new naval warfare strategy based not on...Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Aircraft Carriers, Science and Technology, World War II (1939-1945), Pacific Ocean
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Battle of Midway: A reversal of fortune
If you wanted to pitch a novel about World War II battle, the following story line might be considered too dramatic. Six months after the Navy suffers its most catastrophic loss in history, it defies expectations and turns to fight. A Navy captain...
Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), Manufacturing and Engineering, Biography (genre), World War II (1939-1945)
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Building the Yorktown
Several residents wrote or called me in the last week to add bits and pieces of information about the gallant Yorktown, a Newport News-built ship that saw some of the fiercest combat in the Pacific War and which was sunk at the Battle of Midway. Here's...Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Manufacturing and Engineering, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia)
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Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre's 'Anything Goes' is a pleasure cruise
Setting a new high with Cole Porter's "Anything Goes," director Jerry Vess marks his seventh Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre directorial assignment by adding sparkle to the opening of the outdoor theater's 47th season under the stars. Not only has Vess...
Tags: Concerts, Manhattan (New York City), Nicole Anderson, Comedy (genre), Sprague
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Yorktown to make stop in Lake Michigan harbor
SAUGATUCK, Mich. (AP) — The cruise ship Yorktown is expected to make its inaugural visit to Saugatuck in West Michigan. MLive.com reports that the stop Sunday will be the first of seven this summer in the city along Lake Michigan. Saugatuck-...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Yorktown (York, Virginia)
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Newport News shipyard photos reach back 125 years
If you've ever taken a good look at the battleship USS Wisconsin outside Nauticus and the Hampton Roads Naval Museum in Norfolk, it probably didn't take long to recognize that you were in the presence of something special. With its long, raking hull,...
Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Heroism, Manufacturing and Engineering, Arts and Culture, Newport News Shipbuilding
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Healthcare history: How the patchwork coverage came to be
Workers swarmed through Henry J. Kaiser's Richmond, Calif., shipyard in World War II, building 747 ships for the Navy. The war "had siphoned off the most hardy specimens," a newspaper reported, so Kaiser was left with many workers too young, old or infirm...Tags: Government, Germany, Health Insurance, Republican Party, Internal Revenue Service
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Living Here: Newport News
About 22 miles long and only 4 miles wide, the area that became Newport News was first settled in 1619. In 1896, that community — the former seat of Warwick County — became the separate city of Newport News. Warwick County was one of the eight...Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Fort Eustis, Kandahar Massacre (2012), Manufacturing and Engineering, USS Monitor
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Living Here: Getting around
How fitting is the moniker Hampton Roads? Sure, that's the official name of the water that the region is built around, but it's also a hint about the traffic you'll face around here. Anyone who has lived in Hampton Roads for a couple of months will have...
Tags: James River, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Fort Eustis, Transportation, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia)
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Living Here: Military installations
Newcomers will see it right away: Hampton Roads and theU.S. military go hand in hand. Every branch of the service is represented in this corner of southeastern Virginia: Start with the world's largest naval base and the only East Coast home for the...
Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Kandahar Massacre (2012), U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Richmond (Richmond, Virginia)
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Feb 27, 2012
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