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The Shipping News is a 2001 romantic drama film directed by Lasse Hallström from a screenplay by Robert Nelson Jacobs, based on the 1993 novel of the same name by E. Annie Proulx. It stars Kevin Spacey , Julianne Moore , Judi Dench , Scott Glenn , Rhys Ifans , Pete Postlethwaite , and Cate Blanchett .
USS Newport News (CA–148) was the third and last ship of the Des Moines-class of heavy cruisers in the United States Navy.She was the first fully air-conditioned surface ship and the last active all-gun heavy cruiser in the United States Navy.
The Shipping News is a novel by American author E. Annie Proulx and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1993. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, [1] the U.S. National Book Award, as well as other awards. [2] It was adapted as a film of the same name which was released in 2001.
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The school was named after the shipping and railroad pioneer, Collis P. Huntington, who founded the local shipyards, the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, at one time the largest shipbuilding concern in the world.
In Virginia, beginning in 1881, coal piers, operated by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) on the Virginia Peninsula at Newport News and in South Hampton Roads by the Norfolk and Western (N&W) and Virginian Railway (VGN) at Norfolk, made the port of Hampton Roads the largest shipping point of coal in the world by 1930.
Newport class [9] Hull No. Ship name Builder Laid down Launched Commissioned Decommissioned Fate LST-1179 Newport: Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1 November 1966 3 February 1968 7 June 1969 1992 Sold to Mexican Navy as ARM Papaloapan: LST-1180 Manitowoc: 1 February 1967 4 June 1969 24 January 1970 1993
In December 2013, Newport News Shipbuilding officially opened up the new Apprentice School, located on Washington Avenue. The new facility tripled the available instructional space to include eight computer labs, two video teleconferencing classrooms, a physics lab, and a 600-seat gymnasium.