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[[Gambar:USS Birmingham launch.jpg||thumb|375px|[[USS Birmingham (CL-62)|USS ''Birmingham'']] dilancarkan dari limbungangalangan kapal Newport News pada tahun 1942.]]
'''Northrop Grumman Newport News''', dulunya dikenal sebagai '''Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company''' ('''NNS'''), adalah [[ shipyardgalangan kapal]] terbesar yang dimiliki swasta di [[Amerika Serikat]] dan satu-satunya yang dapat membuat [[ Pembawakapal pesawatinduk kelas Nimitz]]. DiaNewport News terletak di [[Newport News, Virginia]], dan kadangkala berpartisipasi dalam proyek dengan [[Norfolk Naval Shipyard]] di [[Portsmouth, Virginia]], juga terletak bersebelahan dengan [[Hampton Roads]]. ▼
▲'''Northrop Grumman Newport News''', dulunya dikenal sebagai '''Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company''' ('''NNS'''), adalah [[shipyard]] terbesar yang dimiliki swasta di [[Amerika Serikat]] dan satu-satunya yang dapat membuat [[Pembawa pesawat kelas Nimitz]]. Dia terletak di [[Newport News, Virginia]], dan kadangkala berpartisipasi dalam proyek dengan [[Norfolk Naval Shipyard]] di [[Portsmouth, Virginia]], juga terletak bersebelahan dengan [[Hampton Roads]].
== Sejarah ==
Pada [[1880-an]], [[Collis P. Huntington]] membuat [[Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad]] untuk mentransfer [[batu bara]] dari lembah [[Sungai Ohio]] ke [[Newport News, Virginia]]. Pada [[1886]], dia membuat shipyardgalangan kapal untuk memperbaiki kapakapal yang melayani jalur ini. Pada [[1891]], Newport News Shipbuilding mengantar kapal pertamanya, sebuah tugboat bernama ''Dorothy''. Pada [[1897]], NNS telah membuat tiga kapal perang untuk [[Angkatan Laut Amerika Serikat]]: [[USS Nashville|''Nashville'']], [[USS Wilmington|''Wilmington'']], dan [[USS Helena|''Helena'']].
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In [[1906]], the revolutionary [[HMS Dreadnought (1906)|HMS ''Dreadnought'']] launched a great naval race worldwide. Between [[1907]] and [[1923]], Newport News built six of the [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy's]] total of 22 [[dreadnought|dreadnoughts]] -- [[USS Delaware|''Delaware'']], [[USS Texas|''Texas'']], [[USS Pennsylvania|''Pennsylvania'']], [[USS Mississippi|''Mississippi'']], [[USS Maryland|''Maryland'']], and [[USS West Virginia|''West Virginia'']] -- and all but the first would still be in active service in [[World War II]].
In [[1907]], President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] sent the [[Great White Fleet]] on its round-the-world voyage. Seven of its 16 [[battleship|battleships]] were built by NNS. Between [[1918]] and [[1920]], NNS delivered 25 [[destroyer|destroyers]], and after [[World War I]], NNS began building [[aircraft carrier]]s. [[USS Ranger|''Ranger'']] was delivered in [[1934]], and NNS went on to build [[USS Yorktown|''Yorktown'']] and [[USS Enterprise (CV-6)|''Enterprise'']].
By [[1940]], the Navy had ordered seven more aircraft carriers and four [[cruiser]]s. Still, the company swiftly filled requests for "[[Liberty ships]]" that were needed during the war. It founded an emergency yard on the banks of the [[Cape Fear River]] and launched its first Liberty ship before the end of [[1941]], building 239 in all. For its contributions during the war, the Navy awarded the company its "E" pennant for excellence in ship construction.
In the post-war years, NNS built the famous passenger liner [[SS United States|SS ''United States'']], which set a transatlantic speed record that still stands today. In [[1954]], NNS, together with [[Westinghouse]] and the Navy, developed and built a prototype [[nuclear reactor]] for a carrier propulsion system. NNS designed the [[USS Enterprise (CVN-65)|''Enterprise'']] in [[1960]]. In [[1959]] NNS launched its first nuclear-powered [[submarine]], [[USS Shark|''Shark'']] as well as the [[ballistic missile submarine]] [[USS Robert E. Lee|''Robert E. Lee'']].
In the [[1970s]], NNS launched two of the largest [[tanker]]s ever built in the western hemisphere and also constructed three [[liquefied natural gas carrier]]s -- at over 390,000 deadweight tons, the largest ever built in the United States. In the [[1980s]], NNS produced a variety of Navy products, including [[Nimitz class aircraft carrier|''Nimitz''-class nuclear aircraft carriers]] and [[Los Angeles class submarine|''Los Angeles''-class nuclear attack submarines]]. On [[November 7]], [[2001]], NNS signed a merger agreement with [[Northrop Grumman]], the combination creating a $4 billion shipyard now called Northrop Grumman Newport News.
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== Pranala luar ==
* [http://www.nn.northropgrumman.com/index.asp Northrop Grumman Newport News]
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