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34-662: The Naval Undersea Museum Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit Washington State corporation established in 1980 as a philanthropic organization. Through fund-raising efforts of the Foundation, the Naval Undersea Museum and Conference Center complex in Keyport, Washington, opened in 1995. The Naval Undersea Museum combines naval history, undersea technology, and marine science. This new building, filled with more than 20,000 square feet (1,900 m) of exhibits, holds

68-748: A James Madison -class ballistic missile submarine , was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for Tecumseh (c.1768–1813), the leader of the Shawnee people. The contract to build Tecumseh was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of the General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut , on 20 July 1961. Originally, she was to have been named William Penn , and would have been

102-641: A shipyard to repair ships servicing this transportation hub. In 1891 Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company delivered its first ship, the tugboat Dorothy . By 1897 NNS had built three warships for the US Navy : USS  Nashville , Wilmington and Helena . When Collis died in 1900, his nephew Henry E. Huntington inherited much of his uncle's fortune. He also married Collis' widow Arabella Huntington , and assumed Collis' leadership role with Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. Under Henry Huntington's leadership, growth continued. In 1906

136-587: A German U-boat off Queenstown on the Irish coast. His assistant, Frederic Gauntlett, was also on board, but was able to swim to safety. Homer Lenoir Ferguson was company vice president when Hopkins died, and assumed the presidency the following August. He saw the company through both world wars, became a noted community leader, and was a co-founder of the Mariners' Museum with Archer Huntington. He served until July 31, 1946, after World War II had ended on both

170-689: A conversion which replaced her Polaris ballistic missile system with the new Poseidon ballistic missile system. Emerging from dry dock on 9 May 1970, Tecumseh underwent a thorough overhaul through that fall and winter before being assigned a new home port of Charleston, South Carolina , on 18 February 1971. Tecumseh conducted sea trials and shakedown out of Charleston before conducting two deterrent patrols in late 1971. Subsequently deployed to Holy Loch, Scotland , Tecumseh arrived in Scottish waters on 9 February 1972. She conducted 18 more deterrent patrols out of Holy Loch through 1976. Tecumseh

204-400: A second bid to purchase the company after a failed bid in 1999. Such a merger would have eliminated competition for the production of Virginia -class submarines , which have only been made by Newport News and GD subsidiary Electric Boat . Northrop Grumman matched GD with a similar bid, and following a Department of Justice anti-trust lawsuit to block GD's bid, GD called off their bid. Now as

238-556: The Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle (DSRV) that was used for the film The Hunt for Red October , and a re-creation of the control room of USS Greenling using the actual equipment and consoles removed from the attack submarine when it was decommissioned. Exhibit themes include the environment of the ocean, torpedoes , naval mine warfare , the technology of submarines, and diving equipment . USS Tecumseh (SSBN-628) USS Tecumseh (SSBN-628) ,

272-546: The Mallory Steamship Company ; as MV  Doulos she was until 2009 the world's oldest active ocean-faring passenger ship . In the early years, leaders of the Newport News community and those of the shipyard were virtually interchangeable. Shipyard president Walter A. Post served from March 9, 1911, to February 12, 1912, when he died. Earlier, he had come to the area as one of the builders of

306-634: The Naval Undersea Museum at Keyport, Washington . Newport News Shipbuilding 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 naval and commercial ships. Located in

340-463: The 1970s, NNS launched two of the largest tankers ever built in the western hemisphere and also constructed three liquefied natural gas carriers – at over 390,000 deadweight tons, the largest ever built in the United States. NNS and Westinghouse Electric Company jointly formed Offshore Power Systems to build floating nuclear power plants for Public Service Electric and Gas Company . In

374-536: The 1980s, NNS produced a variety of Navy products, including Nimitz -class nuclear aircraft carriers and Los Angeles -class nuclear attack submarines. Since 1999 the shipyard has only produced warships for the Navy. In 2007, the US Navy found that workers had used the incorrect metal to fuse together pipes and joints on submarines under construction and this could have eventually led to cracking and leaks. In 2009 it

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408-468: The C&;O Railway's terminals, and had served as the first mayor of Newport News after it became an independent city in 1896. It was on March 14, 1914, that Albert Lloyd Hopkins, a young New Yorker trained in engineering, succeeded Post as president of the company. In May 1915 while traveling to England on shipyard business aboard RMS  Lusitania , Hopkins died when that ship was torpedoed and sunk by

442-477: The European and Pacific fronts. Just northwest of the shipyard, Hilton Village , one of the first planned communities in the country, was built by the federal government to house shipyard workers in 1918. The planners met with the wives of shipyard workers. Based on their input 14 house plans were designed for the projected 500 English-village-style homes. After the war, in 1922, Henry Huntington acquired it from

476-928: The Gold Crew. Based at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii , Tecumseh deployed to the Mariana Islands on 17 December 1964, arriving at Guam on 29 December 1964 to commence deterrent patrols. Tecumseh had conducted 21 strategic deterrent patrols in the Pacific by 1969, when she transferred to the United States Atlantic Fleet . She proceeded via Pearl Harbor and the Panama Canal to the United States East Coast and arrived at Newport News, Virginia , on 8 November 1969. Soon thereafter, she entered Newport News shipyard for

510-690: The Panama Canal, and subsequently ported in Bremerton, WA for decommissioning. Tecumseh was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 23 July 1993. Her scrapping via the Nuclear-Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at Bremerton, Washington , was completed on 1 April 1994. Tecumseh ' s port torpedo tubes and a large piece of pressure hull were preserved and are now on display at

544-695: The Undersea Quarterly and sponsors the Naval Undersea Museum Store. Other educational programs are supported by the Foundation in cooperation with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Keyport. Exhibits interpret the ocean environment, the development of undersea weapons technology, U.S. submarines, and Navy diving and salvage. Artifacts include U.S. torpedoes from the Whitehead and Howell designs to

578-438: The United States, although she was a modest size compared with the biggest European liners of her era. NNS launched California ' s sister ships Virginia in 1928 and Pennsylvania in 1929. NNS followed them by launching two even larger turbo-electric liners for Dollar Steamship Company : the 21,936  GRT SS  President Hoover in 1930, followed by her sister President Coolidge in 1931. SS  America

612-690: The city of Newport News , Virginia , its facilities span more than 550 acres (2.2 km ). The shipyard is a major employer, not only for the lower Virginia Peninsula , but also portions of Hampton Roads south of the James River and the harbor, portions of the Middle Peninsula region, and even some northeastern counties of North Carolina . The shipyard is building two Gerald R. Ford -class aircraft carriers : USS  John F. Kennedy  (CVN-79) , and USS  Enterprise  (CVN-80) . In 2013, Newport News Shipbuilding began

646-637: The deactivation of the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, USS  Enterprise  (CVN-65) , which it also built. Newport News Shipbuilding also performs refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH) work on Nimitz -class aircraft carriers . This is a four-year vessel renewal program that not only involves refueling of the vessel's nuclear reactors but also includes modernization work. The yard has completed RCOH for five Nimitz -class carriers ( USS  Nimitz , USS  Dwight D. Eisenhower , USS  Carl Vinson , USS  Theodore Roosevelt and USS  Abraham Lincoln ). As of November 2017 this work

680-465: The first Navy ship to bear that name, but was renamed on 11 April 1962. Tecumseh ' s keel was laid down on 1 June 1962. She was launched on 22 June 1963 sponsored by Mrs. Mildred Inez (Tyner) Sikes, wife of Florida Congressman Robert L. F. Sikes , and commissioned on 29 May 1964, with Commander Arnett B. Taylor in command of the Blue Crew and Commander Charles S. Carlisle in command of

714-400: The government, and helped facilitate the sale of the homes to shipyard employees and other local residents. Three streets there were named after Post, Hopkins, and Ferguson. The Lusitania incident was among the events that brought the United States into World War I. Between 1918 and 1920 NNS delivered 25 destroyers , and after the war it began building aircraft carriers . USS  Ranger

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748-448: The largest collection of naval undersea history and science artifacts in the United States. The museum's research library contains more than 6,500 volumes that support the exhibits and provide extensive information on undersea history, science, and operations. It also holds a complete set of World War II submarine war patrol reports and more than 115 interviews from the U.S. Naval Institute's oral history collection. The Foundation publishes

782-460: The modern Mk 48 and Mk 50 weapons, a Confederate mine, torpedo tubes from the ballistic missile submarine USS  Tecumseh , and a simulated submarine control room incorporating major equipment from USS  Greenling . Some noteworthy items in the Museum collection are the 55-ton sail of the nuclear fast attack submarine USS  Sturgeon , the deep submersibles Trieste II and Mystic ,

816-408: The post-war years NNS built the passenger liner SS  United States , which set a transatlantic speed record that still stands today. In 1954 NNS, Westinghouse and the US Navy developed and built a prototype nuclear reactor for a carrier propulsion system. NNS designed USS  Enterprise in 1960. In 1959 NNS launched its first nuclear-powered submarine , USS  Robert E. Lee . In

850-864: The previously isolated coalfields, adjacent to the New River and the Kanawha River in West Virginia . In 1881, the Peninsula Extension of the C&O was built from Richmond down the Virginia Peninsula to reach a new coal pier on Hampton Roads in Warwick County near the small unincorporated community of Newport News Point . However, building the railroad and coal pier was only the first part of Huntington's dreams for Newport News. In 1886, Huntington built

884-648: The revolutionary HMS  Dreadnought launched a great naval race worldwide. Between 1907 and 1923, Newport News built six of the US Navy 's total of 22 dreadnoughts – USS  Delaware , Texas , Pennsylvania , Mississippi , Maryland and West Virginia . All but the first were in active service in World War II . In 1907 President Theodore Roosevelt sent the Great White Fleet on its round-the-world voyage. NNS had built seven of its 16 battleships . In 1914 NNS built SS Medina for

918-502: The sole bidder, Northrop Grumman purchased the company for $ 2.6 billion and renamed it "Northrop Grumman Newport News". This division was merged with Northrop Grumman Ship Systems in 2008 and given the name " Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding ". Three years later, the company was spun off as Huntington Ingalls Industries , Inc., which trades under the symbol HII on the New York Stock Exchange . Other ships built at

952-600: The war. It founded the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company , an emergency yard on the banks of the Cape Fear River and launched its first Liberty ship before the end of 1941, building 243 ships in all, including 186 Libertys. For its contributions during the war, the Navy awarded the company its "E" pennant for excellence in shipbuilding. NNS ranked 23rd among United States corporations in the value of wartime production contracts. In

986-708: Was delivered in 1934, and NNS went on to build Yorktown and Enterprise . After World War I NNS completed a major reconditioning and refurbishment of the ocean liner SS  Leviathan . Before the war she had been the German liner Vaterland , but the start of hostilities found her laid up in New York Harbor and she had been seized by the US Government in 1917 and converted into a troopship . War duty and age meant that all wiring, plumbing, and interior layouts were stripped and redesigned while her hull

1020-460: Was found that bolts and fasteners in weapons-handling systems on four Navy submarines, New Mexico , North Carolina , Missouri , and California , were installed incorrectly, delaying the launching of the boats while the problems were corrected. In 1968, Newport News merged with Tenneco Corporation . In 1996, Tenneco initiated a spinoff of Newport News into an independent company (Newport News Shipbuilding). In 2001, General Dynamics made

1054-840: Was homeported in Charleston, South Carolina, at least from March 1982 until entering Newport News shipyard for a refueling overhaul in 1983. After completion of this overhaul in Spring of 1987 she successfully completed sea trials, shakedown, and a successful missile launch and returned to her home port of Charleston, South Carolina, From 1987 to 1992 Tecumseh was homeported in Charleston SC, making patrols from both Charleston and Holy Loch Scotland. In 1992, Tecumseh off-loaded its missiles and participated in war games out of Charleston for training of attack boats and other Anti-Submarine warfare vessels or planes. In January 1993, Tecumseh transited

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1088-452: Was launched in 1939 and entered service with United States lines shortly before World War II but soon returned to the shipyard for conversion to a troopship, USS West Point . By 1940 the Navy had ordered a battleship, seven more aircraft carriers and four cruisers . During World War II , NNS built ships as part of the U.S. government's Emergency Shipbuilding Program , and swiftly filled requests for " Liberty ships " that were needed during

1122-413: Was strengthened and her boilers converted from coal to oil while being refurbished. Virtually a new ship emerged from NNS in 1923, and SS Leviathan became the flagship of United States Lines . In 1927 NNS launched the world's first significant turbo-electric ocean liner: Panama Pacific Line 's 17,833  GRT SS  California . At the time she was also the largest merchant ship yet built in

1156-545: Was underway for the sixth Nimitz -class vessel, USS  George Washington . Industrialist Collis P. Huntington (1821–1900) provided crucial funding to complete the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad (C&O) from Richmond, Virginia , to the Ohio River in the early 1870s. Although originally built for general commerce, this C&O rail link to the midwest was soon also being used to transport bituminous coal from

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