Inside US Largest Dry Dock Rolling Out Gigantic Aircraft Carrier After Repairs

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[jonkirkwood]

Reported to CVN-71 before keel laying. Left her after she was operational. Cross-decked to CVN-72 as a test engineer. Magnificent ships. Wonderful shipyard. Loved walking across the yard on night shifts.

[timsebastian]

When i was in the Navy i was stationed in Holy Loch, Scotland on the sub tender Canopus in 70-71. Working on various jobs onboard subs was extremely interesting..and a little scary. Enjoyable though. Sub sailors are a great bunch of guys.😊

[overbank]

Hats off to the sailors who make this happen! 👍👍👍🙏

[williammingee]

I retired from the ship yard in 2021 after 41 years thank you for video .

[Gunny_st]

I'm glad that they continue to keep the Enterprise name alive. Still have a long way to go to hit NC-1701.

[markissboi]

The maintenence crews keeping it all working

[RayBecker]

My ship was in the Philly yard in 1986. There is just no way to describe how huge and deep that drydock was. We always walked past in the morning and the evening and I can't even add up the many times I've stopped to look. My ship was the USS Independence CV-62 and I would be remiss if I did not shout out the yard workers and every shop. Those guys and gals did amazing work

[ottomaier]

cool background music at the beginning 👍

[dgsantafedave]

Went thru a yard period in Portsmouth, VA on the USS Coral Sea! One of the highlights for me was standing underneath the ship that I steered around the world! We chipped 44 tons of haze gray paint off of the hull of that ship!

[JackFrost]

40 ton lump of steel skipping on the water... that launcher is bloody strong.

[phillipmanganaro-qp]

Brought back memories. UNREPPING was a dangerous evolution. We hit the USS Shasta while we were UNREPPING. We hit a log and had to return to Singapore for a month in drydock. They removed our screw and shaft, and about the time they were out of the drydock, a barge came with alongside with a new shaft and screw. They put us back together and off we went to phuket Thailand. That was 1983, and it still amazes me how they just got it done. It was 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for a month straight.

[Radamus]

Since I was part of the air wing, my 2 deployments on carriers had our berthing either under the steam cats or arresting cables. Both spaces kinda sucks to berth in due to noise and violent cat shots that shook dudes out of their racks at times. These new carriers have got to be Heaven in comparison for airwing sailors.

[JoeDunagain]

Damn one of those dry docks had 4 submarines in it at the same time!!!! That must be one of them they use for our aircraft carriers

[Nitestalker]

These American workers are incredible!!! What an accomplishment!!!!

[VideoManDan]

7:52 "Guys, calm down, calm down" 😂 Yeah that's a great way to get your guys to calm down. Try that on your wife sometime 😂

[robert-hydq]

When i worked for Bigge crane I pulled a lot of shafts and replaced them in dry dock 11. Then i went to work for W.O.Grubb and was sent over to put the shafts in the Gerald R Ford. I was in high demand back then, Mr Williams the rigging Foreman used to asked for me by name back then.

[ChainsawFPV]

I was born in Newport News. Cool video.

[mariann]

When I was growing up. The Newport News Shipyard and Dry Dock Company was the world largest privately owned Shipyard. The Tugboat Dorothy was hull #1. She was delivered 1891.

[paulhunter]

While i realize that these new carriers are huge and extremely complex it makes no sense for it to take from 2015 to maybe 2025 to build one ship. With all of the modern technology that we have that is just insane. Not to mention for national security it makes no sense to only be capable of building these ships in one shipyard. Things like this should be spread out to different shipyards so that it couldn't be brought to a complete halt by damaging one shipyard.

[SettledBatches]

8:35 - The destroyer's screws are hidden like subs' are.
9:32 - 'Swabbies, man your brooms! We need a clean sweep-down fore and aft!' - When I was a swabbie.
10:35 - Not spelled that way, but it is pronounced "Yokuska".