Inclined Shipbuilding Ways (Newport News, Virginia)
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shipyard, slipway
Presently used for storage, these two inclined ways were once part of a nine-way shipbuilding and launching complex at Newport News Shipyard. They were most recently used for the construction and launching of Los Angeles Class Nuclear Powered Attack Submarines in the 1980's.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 36°59'17"N 76°26'30"W
- Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipyard 2.2 km
- Norfolk Naval Shipyard 21 km
- Sparrows Point Terminal (formerly RG Steel/Sparrows Point Steel Mill) 251 km
- Former Site of Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Company 333 km
- Philadelphia Navy Yard (former) 342 km
- Lunenburg 1310 km
- The Royal Dockyard : Rosyth 5675 km
- Goole Dockyards 5891 km
- D.C.N. Lorient 5901 km
- Amwaj 6172 km
- CSX Newport News Yard 1.7 km
- East End 2.4 km
- Newport News Coal Terminal 2.7 km
- James River Bridge 3.8 km
- Copeland Industrial Park 4.7 km
- Hampton Roads 5.1 km
- Old Wythe 5.9 km
- Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel 6.7 km
- Isle of Wight County, Virginia 25 km
- Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater 52 km