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The Huntington Memorial undergoes another transition. I'm Bryan Moore and this is Focus NNS
The Huntington Memorial was was first unveiled back in nineteen seventeen
since then it's been through many transitions and now it's transformed again
that story a little later
Newport News Shipbbuilding delivers two submarines just over a week apart
plus one hundred twenty-five years of shipbuilding
a new exhibit opens at the Mariners' Museum
but first on-deck Newport News Shipbuilding successfully redelivers the
los angeles class submarine u_s_s_ albany
and the newest and most advanced virginia class submarine california is
delivered both now in the hands of the u_s_ navy
california SSN seven eighty one the world's most modern and
sophisticated nuclear-powered attack submarine was delivered to the navy on
august seventh
california is the fourth virginia class delivery for newport news and each
successive ship has been delivered with the highest quality and lower cost and the shortest schedule
the shortest time frame for us is sixty-five months lowest-cost of any VCS
and great reports from the board
who took the final delivery trial
out for the ship. so.. uh great day for everybody here at Newport News...
we're looking forward to her
in the next day or so and getting it out to sea and getting into service.
it takes a long time to do this in a in a everyday
thinking that you're proud of what you see it changes every day indicated
official i dedicate their lives overcrowded equipment
a quality both out in the fleet with regard to protect what we
think of everyday it's you know the freedom of the country and that's a you
know it's it's a very proud that community
california is the eight submarine in virginia class and the first delivered
by newport news shipbuilding
since the return of the newport news shipbuilding name bcl ship builders are
proud to see california set sail people like patty richard said who gave the
invitation when the keel was laid for california back in two thousand nine and
we've just done a great job safety y
and production wise with totally done a great job in the delivery add that boat
and then in san francisco cry
and that good news continues
u_s_s_ albany the forty third submarine of the los angeles class was read a
liver to the navy one day ahead of schedule and on budget all they began
its docking maintenance availability and march there were concluded upgrades to
the summary in stone are navigation and weapon systems
as well as maintenance work on the propulsion
and habitability systems
and for california commissioning ceremony is scheduled in october
now let's take a look at some other news
hon
or halfway there structural construction on the nuclear powered aircraft carrier
gerald r_ foo
ward c_b_n_ seventy eight
as now fifty percent complete
of the five hundred total structural lives needed to complete the ship more
than two hundred fifty have been accomplished about eight hundred sixty
feet of the ship's total one thousand ninety-two foot length is now in dry
dock
ford as the lead ship in a new class of carriers and has been under construction
at newport news shipbuilding sensor keel laying in two thousand nine ford is on
track for launch in twenty thirteen and delivery to the navy in twenty-fifty
remember this well now's your chance to create an immediate safety song and be a
big winner at the same time
newport news shipbuilding is looking for its newest safety star just write a new
safety song and enter the safety song contest you could win a thousand dollars
and have your song made into a music video fire video training services
department
make sure you follow all the rules and guidelines you will find them on the
employee section of the company website
and on posters and flyers around the shipyard
a winner will be announced in october
one hundred twenty-five years of shipbuilding history is on display at
the mariners museum
jeremy bustin with newport news is communications division
has that story with the cutting of a return
here in this case the filmstrip
newport news shipbuilding president menem all hair and museum president bill
cover and shipbuilding photographers officially open the always good ships
exhibits in the public
this time photographers of new british shipbuilding were on the other side of
the lens as media and museum patrons of light interviewed them about capturing
said buildings history that's really great on
photographers and heart like and myron kandel monochrome when people
people think of the shipyard
yeah i think that that would happen with grab
ever you know
produced an argument for or for product they're you know
but it is the most incredible points in the world
you see the fountain jury
i mean constant on steel
float
set awesome here lou
the the things that happens then
as of last
for twenty nine years john whelan has been capturing the men and women who
have built a legacy
he's photographed many ship builders over the years but he has one particular
memory that stands out
went out on the u_s_s_ harry truman
i went out for reporters and said
they were going flight out
and so i had three days on flight
that we have a photograph that howard machines
going what the aircraft carrier what we have certain of bill
and put out there's the way
that was al's
and all of the world
the exhibit displays over fifty five
does commemorating the yards rich one hundred twenty five-year history
shipbuilding president memo handsets photography is an important aspect of
shipbuilding but i think it's important in the photographers or that we have a
very impassive
the qualities and with the fact that people have
environment was
bluffing
infirmities
always distances of in after october thirty first st mary's museum in newport
news virginia
their special three days available for employees as well as discounted
employees memberships
for focus and then asks and german bust
taking care of me and for more information on the exhibit check out the
employee section of the newport news shipbuilding website
and the mariners museum website
and speaking of history the huntington memorial has a new look
and this addition of shipyard focus our communication summer intern christopher
royal has a look at the newest addition to the rock
high-interest
not only are we focus on rebranding our leaders did discharge
but also bringing back and remembering simple
standing outside here today the foundry as they unveiled in his black going back
to the ride
workers from the standards of the new place to be added to the fact is that
the store grafton is an exact replica of the referees northwest as instructed to
quote from newport news shipbuilding founders scholar stephen king
we shall build kijiji at a profit if we can't at a loss of three months but
always good ***
made out of uh... very good uh...
and uh... artwork menninger
construction of the newsletter includes animated taking impressions of the
original like in using modeling close-knit village melted
through the new pattern
the pattern was being used to make the same old reading the oppression of black
are far less that america has ever go out and spread the flap about the file
black
when i finished with their fellow for the family column almost all the mold
an animal from the office tomorrow ford intended and i want to take at three
thousand lol
five times
fourteen thousand conference room
taxes right
thank you chris and that's it for this edition of focus at an estate sure you
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