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torsdag, maj 21, 2020

"He who has planted will preserve." (USS Theodore Roosevelt)




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Namesake: Theodore Roosevelt
Ordered: 30 September 1980
Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding Co.
Cost: U.S. $4.5 billion in 2007 dollars[1]
Laid down: 31 October 1981
Launched: 27 October 1984
Commissioned: 25 October 1986
Homeport: NAS North Island, San Diego, California
Motto:
Qui Plantavit Curabit
(Latin: "He who has planted will preserve.")
Nickname(s): TR, Big Stick
Status: in active service/Wikipedia







Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is the largest industrial employer in Virginia, and sole designer, builder and refueler of United States Navy aircraft carriers and one of two providers of U.S. Navy submarines. Founded as the Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Co.

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