33-889: Tabb may refer to: Places [ edit ] Tabb, Virginia , an unincorporated community in York County Tabb, West Virginia , a former unincorporated community in Berkeley County Other uses [ edit ] Tabb (surname) Tabb High School , in Tabb, Virginia (York County) Tabb Monument , in Amelia County, Virginia Tabb Street Presbyterian Church , in Petersburg, Virginia See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing Tabb Tab (disambiguation) Tabby (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
66-636: 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
99-578: 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
132-400: 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
165-700: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Tabb, Virginia Tabb is an unincorporated community in York County , Virginia , United States , on the Virginia Peninsula . Major roads include U.S. Route 17 and State Route 134 (Hampton Highway, which continues as Magruder Boulevard in Hampton). The community was named for Mary Octavia Tabb who served as postmaster from 21 December 1893 until early 1910, as per National Archives and Records Administration. It
198-538: Is home to Tabb High School , one of four high schools in York County. It is also home to Tabb Middle School, Tabb Elementary School, and Mount Vernon Elementary School. Tabb is served by the US Postal Service ZIP code 23693. The ZIP code area had an estimated population of 23,807 in 2014. Tabb, Virginia uses the mailing address of Yorktown, Virginia . This area is also referred to as York County. York County
231-422: Is one of the eight original shires formed in colonial Virginia in 1682. Tabb is primarily a residential community, with a few commercial interests. The largest employer in Tabb is a Walmart Supercenter department store built in the early 2000s on the site of a former Cinema-City drive-in theater and grocery store at the intersection of U.S. Route 17 and State Route 171 . Other major employers nearby include
264-687: The American Civil War , the Battle of Big Bethel , was fought on land in nearby Hampton as well as the area that later became Tabb. During the 1862 Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War , Yorktown was captured by the Union after the Battle of Yorktown. The York County area was then used as a base by the Union Army under General George B. McClellan to launch an unsuccessful attack on Richmond (the capital of
297-529: 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
330-570: The NASA Langley Research Center , Newport News Shipbuilding , Naval Weapons Station Yorktown and Joint Base Langley-Eustis . With a number of small farms that offer fresh locally grown produce, and equestrian facilities, the community serves as a rural escape for the nearby cities of Hampton and Newport News . Predominantly rural until the late 20th century, the community has rapidly grown in recent decades in both population and commercialization. The first organized land battle of
363-596: The 14th century, arrived in Virginia in 1622 as a teenager. In Jamestown he boarded with George Sandys the treasurer of the Colony of Virginia who introduced him to the Governor, Francis Wyatt . By 1636 Calthorpe had acquired 1,800 acres of land in Virginia and become prominent in planter class society. He represented York County in the House of Burgesses and served as a justice of
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#1732844127308396-456: 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
429-527: 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
462-574: The 21st century. 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
495-464: 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
528-592: The Confederacy). The historic Thorpland Plantation , a colonial manor house begun in the 17th century on land originally patented by Christopher Calthorpe on July 13, 1635, is located in Tabb on Victory Blvd. It is among the oldest wood frame houses still standing in America. Calthorpe, the grandson of an English knight , who was born into a well connected Norfolk family that had held manorial property in East Anglia since
561-472: 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
594-438: 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
627-676: 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
660-637: 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
693-400: 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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#1732844127308726-511: The peace from 1652 to 1661. Thorpland, named after the Calthorpe (also spelled Calthrop) family estate in England, was one of many plantations that existed in this area during the 17th century. Although the large plantation was broken up into smaller family farms over the next three centuries, many of which have since been sold for residential development, the area is still known as "Calthrop Neck" in
759-408: 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
792-761: 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
825-634: 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
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891-492: 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
924-579: 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
957-690: 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
990-460: 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
1023-452: 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
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1056-413: 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
1089-533: 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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