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	Norfolk Naval Shipyard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Norfolk Naval Shipyard, often called the Norfolk Navy Yard, is a U.S. Navy facility in Portsmouth, Virginia, for building, remodeling, and repairing the Navy's ships.
		Norfolk Naval Shipyard provides repair and modernization services for every type of ship that the U.S. Navy has in service, which includes amphibious vessels, submarines, guided missile cruisers, and supercarriers.
		The Norfolk yard is one of the few facilities on the east coast capable of dry docking nuclear aircraft carriers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norfolk_Naval_Shipyard (673 words)

	Navy Yard
		Navy Yard (YFB–8) was built as Steam Cutter No. 291 by Norfolk Navy Yard in 1901 and placed in service the same year.
		Serving as a ferry between Norfolk and various naval installations in and around Hampton Roads, Virginia, the ferry was named Navy Yard in 1908 and continued her operations there until December 1922 when she was ordered to the Naval Proving Ground, Dahlgren, Virginia.
		Navy Yard was struck from the Navy Register 12 July and sold shortly thereafter to a local scrap company.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/n3/navy_yard.htm (150 words)

	USS Wasp (CV-7) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was laid down on 1 April 1936 at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts; launched on 4 April 1939, sponsored by Carolyn Edison (wife of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison), and commissioned on 25 April 1940 at the Army Quartermaster Base, South Boston, Massachusetts, Captain John W. Reeves, Jr.
		The carrier put into the Norfolk Navy Yard on 28 August for repair work on her turbines—alterations which kept the ship in dockyard hands into the following month.
		Departing Norfolk on 6 June, Wasp sailed with TF 37 which was built around the carrier and the new battleship North Carolina (BB-55) and escorted by Quincy (CA-39) and San Juan (CL-54) and a half-dozen destroyers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Wasp_(CV-7) (6046 words)

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		She shifted soon thereafter to the New York Navy Yard where she was coaled and drydocked to h ave her hull bottom painted before undergoing repairs and alterations at the Norfolk Navy Yard from 3 November 1906 to 18 February 1907.
		She was placed in reserve on 20 March 1916, at the Boston Navy Yard, and was undergoing an extensive overhaul in the spring of 1917 when the United States declared war on Germany.
		Struck from the Navy list and placed on the sale list on 12 July 1922, the battleship-reclassified prior to her inactivation to BB-13 on 17 July 1920 -was subsequently taken off the sale list and transferred to the War Department on 6 August 1923 for use as a bombing target.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/battlesh/bb13.htm (1947 words)

	NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Norfolk Naval Shipyard is the U.S.Navy's oldest shipyard and actually predates the United States Navy Department by 31 years.
		The yard's employment peak of nearly 43,000 workers was reached during World War II when the yard built nearly 30 major vessels and repaired 6,850 U.S. and Allied ships.
		That is why today Norfolk Naval Shipyard's ability to repair and overhaul ships with speed and efficiency has earned it numerous awards and the reputation of being the nation's number one shipyard.
	www.nnsy1.navy.mil /History/HISTORY.HTM (627 words)

	NPL - Chronology of Norfolk
		In Norfolk County, 10,000 pounds of tobacco were paid to Nicholas Wise for the 50 acre area now bounded by City Hall Avenue on the north, Water Street on the south, the Elizabeth River on the west, and the Norfolk and Western Railroad tracks on the east.
		Norfolk was occupied by Federal forces under the command of General Benjamin Butler until 1865.
		Norfolk becomes the largest city in the state, with a population of 297,253.
	www.npl.lib.va.us /faqs/chrono.html (2742 words)

	AllRefer.com - Norfolk, cities, United States, United States (U.S. Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Norfolk is also a major military center; with Portsmouth the city forms an extensive naval complex.
		Of interest in Norfolk are St. Paul's Church (1738; only building to survive the burning of 1776); Fort Norfolk (1794); the Gen. Douglas MacArthur Memorial, where the general is buried; and many old homes.
		A rallying point for Tory forces at the start of the American Revolution, Norfolk was attacked (1776) by Americans and in the ensuing battle caught fire and was nearly destroyed.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/Nrflk.html (448 words)

	USS Alabama (BB-60) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alabama was laid down on 1 February 1940 by the Norfolk Navy Yard, launched on 16 February 1942, sponsored by Mrs.
		Following a period of availability and logistics support at Norfolk, Alabama was assigned to Task Group 22.2, and returned to Casco Bay for tactical maneuvers on 13 February 1943.
		Alabama departed the New Hebrides for Pearl Harbor on 5 January 1944, arrived on the 12th, and underwent a brief drydocking at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Alabama_(BB-60) (2976 words)

	History of the USS Ranger (CV-4) - Air Group 4
		On the 30th, she proceeded to South Boston Navy Yard for a 2-day yard period to repair a 40mm gun mount damaged by a plane crash.
		May 17, yard availability for 6 weeks was granted at Norfolk Navy Yard, and the following day the ship proceeded to Norfolk, arriving at the Naval Operating Base on May 19, and entering the Navy Yard on the 20th.
		While in the Navy Yard, the 5-inch, 25-calibre guns and the old-type radar were removed; a modern Combat Information Center, and new radar were installed.
	www.airgroup4.com /ranger.htm (2612 words)

	Speech - May 3, 2000
		Under the control of the Confederacy, the Norfolk Navy Yard salvaged and rebuilt the Confederate ironclad "Virginia" from the hull of the scuttled USS "Merrimack".
		Thus the sole purpose of the ironclad "Virginia" was to guard the Norfolk harbor.
		The City of Norfolk and the Navy Yard were then recaptured by Federal troops on May 10 of 1862.
	www.supremecourtus.gov /publicinfo/speeches/sp_05-03-00.html (3758 words)

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		Maxon Fish and Co., Mystic, Conn., the hermaphrodite brig was offered for sale to the Navy while on the ways; purchased at Stonington, Conn., 29 July 1863 by Isaac Henderson for $110,000; delivered at New York Navy Yard 30 September 1863; and commissioned 13 November 1863, Acting Volunteer Lt. V G. Saltonstall in command.
		Having been damaged in several accidental collisions, she entered Norfolk Navy Yard for drydocking on 27 October, and returned off New Inlet on 3 December.
		Later that month she took part in the first engagement of the Fleet against Fort Fisher, renewing the engagement for 2 days; then her boats were sent in to reembark troops.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/steamers/gov_buck.htm (658 words)

	Civil War Navy Dispatches
		Letter from the commandant navy yard, Norfolk, to Major-General Huger, C.S. Army, commanding at Norfolk, regarding the removal of obstructions for the passage of the C.S.S. Virginia (Merrimack).
		Letters from the commandant navy yard, Norfolk, to major-General Huger, C.S. Army, commanding at Norfolk, suggesting means for defeating communication by signal, regarding the undocking of the C.S.S. Virginia (Merrimack).
		The Brooklyn, [New York] navy yard and its magazines and all the lower part of the city would be destroyed, and such an event, by a single ship, would do more to achieve our immediate independence than would the results of many campaigns.
	www.wtj.com /archives/acwnavies/cnavy01.htm (3976 words)

	USS Navy Yard
		Navy Yard (YFB-8) was built as Steam Cutter No. 291 by Norfolk Navy Yard in 1901 and placed in service the same year.
		Serving as a ferry between Norfolk and various naval installations in and arolmd Hampton Roads, Virginia, the ferry was named Navy Yard in 1908 and continued her operations there until December 1922 when she was ordered to the Naval Proving Ground, Dahlgren, Virginia.
		She remained at Dahlgren, in ordinary, until she was towed to Norfolk by minesweeper Owl (AM-2), 20 April 1929.
	www.multied.com /Navy/yacht/navyyard.html (134 words)

	BB-13 Virginia
		She shifted soon thereafter to the New York Navy Yard where she was coaled and drydocked to have her hull bottom painted before undergoing repairs and alterations at the Norfolk Navy Yard from 3 November 1906 to 18 February 1907.
		Overhauled at the Boston Navy Yard in the autumn of 1918, Virginia spent the remainder of hostilities engaged in convoy escort duties, taking convoys well over half-way across the Atlantic.
		Struck from the Navy list and placed on the sale list on 12 July 1922, the battleship, reclassified prior to her inactivation as BB-13 on 17 July 1920, was subsequently taken off the sale list and transferred to the War Department on 6 August 1923 for use as a bombing target.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/bb-13.htm (1868 words)

	BATTLESHIP TEXAS BB35 - MOVEMENTS (by area) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1912 and 1913, TEXAS made 3 trips to from Newport News Shipyard to Norfolk Navy for hull painting.
		There is a reference to a painting date in Norfolk but not for arrival-departures dates for the two locations.
		Also, the date when TEXAS was moved to Norfolk Navy Yard for commissioning is not known.
	users3.ev1.net /~cfmoore/movements/movements-bylocation/state-va.htm (65 words)

	LST of the United States
		LST - 352 was laid down on 9 November 1942 at the Norfolk Navy Yard-, launched on 7 February 1943; sponsored by Miss Virginia Henley; and commissioned on 26 February 1943.
		She was struck from the Navy list on 15 October 1946 and returned to United States Navy custody on 10 December 1946.
		She was struck from the Navy list on 26 February 1946 and returned to United States Navy custody and decommissioned on 16 March 1946.
	www.multied.com /navy/patrol/19.html (9466 words)

	DD-329 Bruce
		Her home yard was changed from Boston to Norfolk Navy Yard in June 1925.
		Upon her return to Norfolk Navy Yard she operated along the eastern seaboard and in Cuban and Haitian waters until March 1927.
		She was later towed to Norfolk Navy Yard where she was used tor experimental strength tests, before scrapping Her salvage metal was sold in August 1932.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/dd-329.htm (292 words)

	DANFS: Wasp (CV-7)
		Charles Edison, the wife of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison; and commissioned on 25 April 1940 at the Army Quartermaster Base, South Boston, Mass., Capt. John W. Reeves, Jr., in command.
		Following her return to Norfolk on the 13th, Wasp and her embarked air group conducted refresher training off the Virginia capes.
		To prepare to strengthen the American Navy in the Pacific, Wasp was hurried back to the United States for alterations and repairs at the Norfolk Navy Yard.
	www.skyrocket.de /usnavy/danfs/cv-_7__wasp.htm (6504 words)

	USS Constitution Museum - FAQs - Sister Ships - USS United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Decommissioned and in ordinary at Norfolk Navy Yard, VA, 1819.
		On 20 April 1861 the Norfolk Navy Yard, VA was captured by Confederate soldiers, and as Union troops hurried to leave, they did not think it important to destroy the rotting ship.
		In 1862 the Confederate Navy abandoned the Norfolk Navy Yard, VA, and to prevent Union ships from regaining the yard, they sunk United States in the Elizabeth River, VA The U.S. Government raised up United States in 1862 and towed her to Norfolk Navy Yard, VA where she remained until 1864.
	www.ussconstitutionmuseum.org /faq/unitedstates.html (306 words)

	Articles - USS Augusta (CA-31) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Following her yearly navy yard overhaul, and training in Philippine waters, Augusta visited Siam, French Indo-China, and Singapore en route back to Shanghai, making port at her ultimate destination on 30 April 1939.
		Augusta remained in the yard at New York from 23 June to 2 July, after which time she resumed operations along the eastern seaboard, in waters off Hilton Head and Charleston, S.C. (4 to 5 July), Hampton Roads (6 to 7 July) before she returned to Newport on 8 July.
		Augusta returned to Norfolk on 10 April, and on 14 April, in accordance with orders from the Secretary of the Navy, half-masted her colors for a period of one month in honor of the late President Roosevelt.
	www.gaple.com /articles/USS_Augusta_(CA-31) (8462 words)

	Military Images: A letter from Daniel O'Connor, USMC, reports: The North's fiasco at Norfolk Navy Yard
		Like the Portsmouth Navy Yard, which is across the Piscataqua River from Portsmouth, New Hampshire in Kittery, Maine, the Norfolk Navy Yard is across the Elizabeth River from Norfolk in Portsmouth, Virginia.
		Eight ships were in the Yard for various repairs, together with the receiving ship Pennsylvania and the steam frigate Merrimack1, which had been in drydock but was within a few days of being ready to sail.
		Adding to the confusion, the rebels ran a train loaded with cheering civilians in and out of the Norfolk railroad station to give the appearance of a large number of soldiers arriving by railroad, all of which could be clearly heard in the Navy Yard.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3905/is_199811/ai_n8826446 (1101 words)

	U.S. Navy - A Brief History of Aircraft Carriers - USS Ranger (CV 4) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Arriving Norfolk 8 December, she sailed on the 21st for patrol in the South Atlantic.
		After calling at Trinidad, she returned to Norfolk for local battle practice until 1 October, then based her training at Bermuda in company with four escort aircraft carriers that had been newly converted from tankers to meet the need for naval air power in the Atlantic.
		Touching at New York 16 May, Ranger then entered the Norfolk Navy Yard to have her flight deck strengthened and for installation of a new type catapult, radar, and associated gear that provided her with a capacity for night fighter interceptor training.
	www.navy.mil /palib/ships/carriers/histories/cv04-ranger/cv04-ranger.html (1378 words)

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		278): It is apparent from the history of the establishment of the Norfolk Navy Yard, already given, that it is one of the places where the Congress possesses exclusive legislative power.
		If it were held that beneficiaries may sue, pursuant to the compensation law, we should have the incongruous situation that this law is in part effective and in part ineffective within the area under the jurisdiction of the federal government.
		In refusing to apply the statute, the court stated it was inconsistent with the "national common law" which, according to the court, provides that "two added to two were always four and a cubic yard was a cubic yard." The court makes clear, however, that it strained to this conclusion.
	www.constitution.org /juris/fjur/2fj6.txt (4006 words)

	Virginia In Dry Dock by Tom Freeman
		Completing this cruise at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, the frigate decommissioned in February 1860.
		In an effort to make her unusable to the southern cause, Federal forces burned and sank Merrimack as they withdrew from the Norfolk Navy Yard on 20 April 1861.
		During the remainder of 1861 and the first two months of 1862, the Confederate States Navy raised, drydocked and converted her into a casemate ironclad ram, a new warship type that promised to overcome the Union’s great superiority in conventional warships.
	chesterfieldarmament.com /freeman/virginia_dry_dock/virginia.php (510 words)

	New NNSY1 Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD in Portsmouth, Virginia, is one of the largest shipyards in the world specializing in repairing, overhauling and modernizing ships and submarines.
		It's the oldest and largest industrial facility that belongs to the U.S. Navy, and it's also the most multifaceted.
		NNSY's skilled employees are trained in three dozen trades - trades which have built, and continue to build, legends for the Navy.
	www.nnsy1.navy.mil (240 words)

	Naval History USS Virginia BB-13
		Returning southward early that autumn, Virginia underwent two months of repairs and alterations at the Norfolk Navy Yard, from 24 September to 24 November, before undergoing further repairs at the New York Navy Yard later in November.
		While war raged in Europe, Virginia continued her operations off the eastern seaboard of the United States ranging from the southern drill grounds to the coast of New England and occasionally steaming to Cuban waters for winter maneuvers.
		Struck from the Navy list and placed on the sale list on 12 July 1922, the battleship-reclassified prior to her inactivation to BB-13 on 17 July 1920—was subsequently taken off the sale list and transferred to the War Department on 6 August 1923 for use as a bombing target.
	www.navyhistory.com /battle/Virginia.html (1834 words)

	Aldie's Civil War Daily
		The United States Navy was having the difficult task of protecting the public property which made up the Norfolk Navy Yard.
		The Secretary of the Navy sent Commodore Hiram Paulding in mid April to confer with his naval officers on a course of action.
		Guns of larger caliber were ordered in and the area made ready for defense on the night of the 20th when the sloop of war Pawnee sailed into the harbor and all the vessels that could not be rescued were scuttled.
	www.us-civilwar.com /aldie/yard.html (488 words)

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