Tour of U.S. Navy's Norfolk Naval Station and Shipyards - May 2019
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- Опубліковано 14 сер 2019
- A tour of the US Navy base in Norfolk and some of the naval shipyards in the area. The video was recorded in May 2019.
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Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia is the largest navy base in the world. It supports naval forces in the United States Fleet Forces Command, those operating in the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and the Indian Ocean.
The shipyards seen in the video:
- General Dynamics NASSCO-Norfolk
- Marine Hydraulics International, Inc
- BAE Systems Norfolk Ship Repair
- Colonna's Shipyard Inc
- Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding
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People watch these videos, and I'm sure it seems impressive to most of them. But they will never know the feeling of awe you get from being up close to any of them. They are huge ships. Then when you see your first super carrier in person, it just takes your breath away. Still hard to believe that anything that large can actually float.
I always tell people when they ask, You had to be there.
Being alongside of a Nimitz class birdfarm was awe-inspiring from the 04 level of our old Coontz/Farragut class DDG. It's very hard to explain exactly how enormous these carriers are. I'm from the era of Tomcats, Vikings and Intruders. Designation: Old Phart mark 1 mod 0 !
@@sbrenner2561 TY for your service
I still remember the first time I saw my ship (USS Dwight D. Eisenhower CVN-69). It was about 2100 and I could see those big letters lit up from all the way down at the other end of the road that runs along the piers. All I could do was look up at the enormous beast as I walked up the pier dragging my sea bag.
I saw Enterprise once the day we got back from my second deployment in 2010. She had just gotten out of the yards and she looked amazing but odd still to the eye of someone accustomed to a Nimitz class carrier.
My dad worked on the USS Bulkey, USS Harry S. Truman, and the USS George HW Bush, and I can say from watching him leave and come home and going on base with him., they are the most massive ships I have seen. I even had the chance to go on the George HW Bush and my dad gave me a tour. I also had thanksgiving dinner on the Bulkey and did a halloween event on the Geaorge HW Bush, and they are truly amazing.I also remember the ships have distinct smell to them, not in a bad way though. I remember good times on Naval Station Norfolk, I remember my dad leaving and him coming home, and I will remember Naval Station Norfolk for that
Bring back Memories, i was on a Air Craft Carrie. 1976 we left Norfolk Virginia. We set sail for a cruise, on the USS Frankllin D Roosevelt. Retired. Navy Veteran.⚓⚓⚓⚓🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I am very proud of our men and women of the US armed forces!! God bless!
If you are just a run of the mill civilian, you owe it to yourself to drive past this yard. It’s indescribable how large and daunting these ships are, it will literally take your breath away
@ 3:25 - my dear, Normandy. Proud & honored to have served/deployed aboard her, part of *USABATGRU 95-3* 's Med Cruise. Captain DeMasi was the best C.O. any sailor could ever hope for, and he had/has the respect of every man who was under his command! God bless the USN. God bless our soldiers, sailors, airmen & Marines. And GOD BLESS AMERICA!
My father was stationed on the Enterprise shorty after it was commissioned. Im sure if he was still alive, he would be sad to see her looking like that.
So painful to see the Lady E in such condition...
I'm weeping.... I remember standing on that flight deck looking at my Tomcat feeling like a superhero...
Even as a younger fellow, it's still hard to look at. That ship had one of the longest careers in the Navy's entire history (other than USS Constitution and 1-2 others). Plus, it's the first nuclear powered carrier ever built. If only they could make it a museum ship!
@Just In credible Whats the point it just waiting for the scrapyards. The new Enterprise will join the navy in 2028.
You flew an F-14. You are a superhero :)
@@riverman83 More like 2040 given the Ford's massive teething issues (the ship was commissioned 5 years ago and still isn't operational)
@Charlie Robertson What's unbelievable is that they Totally destroyed All the F-14's for fear of any parts making it to Iran.
And seeing how they can bring planes out of mothballs, how the US Navy could actually use a "New" F-14 now and how involved the construction of the Titanium wing boxes was, and just what a Horrible waste of Money For such a bad ass plane,
I saw a picture of One, idk where the pic was taken, but there were literally trees growing through the frame of the F-14 ! Made me want to cry.
Spent 14 years in Norfolk on USS Wasp LHD 1(2000-03), USS Whidbey Island LSD 41(1993-96), Fleet Information Warfare Center Little Creek Amphibious Base (1999-2000), Fleet Combat Training Center Atlantic Dam Neck Operations Specialist A School Instructor (1989-92 & 1996-99).
I was one of the first to go through OS school back in 1072 at Damn Neck.
Sad to see the Enterprise in such bad shape. It and the previous carrier with the same name had very distinguished careers. Thanks for the wonderful years of service, ladies.
The have the new Ford class carrier enterprise being built at Huntington Ingalls shipyard
Thank you for the amazing tour.
went threw the Hampton bridge tunnel 3 weeks ago for work into Norfolk if nobody has ever been the fleet there is huge ships everywhere everytime i go i see atleast 2 carriers and they are massive even miles off.
i was out that way from Jax, Fl back in feb. My mother in law lives in Hampton so we took a vacay to get away for a week. went by and seen all the ships. as a kid i loved seeing the ships on NAS Mayport and walking with my mom to pick my stepdad up was a great experience. Seeing them far away makes them seem giant like a skyscraper.
Nothing compares to the Wisconsin what a beast
Thank you sir for this beautiful documentary
Very cool video, thanks for sharing.
I remember driving by it back in '95 transition training from the Cobra to the Apache at Ft Useless (Eustis )for 3 months, even went through the tunnel going under Hampton Roads.
Come back and look at the tunnel now with them expanding to 3 lanes in both directions
The first time I came here in 1977 on HMS Hermes, looking out of the scuttle it was glorious sunshine. When I looked out later once we were alongside, it was like an eclipse. Then we realized that an American carrier Enterprise was berthed at the other side of the jetty. We came here many times on Hermes. Happy days
Good to see BAE Systems represented in the USA. I stay up the road from Scotstoun and Govan yards in Glasgow, Scotland.
Interesting tour, I spent most of my ten years not at sea but in these yards and bases.
I was stationed there in the early 2000's. The USS Dwight D Eisenhower and the USS WASP. Had some good times and bad time's and met some amazing people. Lots of history in that area.
Yeah I got the crabs from your wife while you were deployed 🖕
@@robertcarlson4939 that's crazy. I wasn't even married back then. I don't even know who you are. Thank you for leaving such a wonderful reply for me. I truly hope it made you feel like more of a man. Good luck with the rest of your amazing life. Maybe you'll find other comments you could reply to. Maybe keep insulting other people who have know clue you even existed. 🤔🤔🤔😂😂😂😂😂😂😆😆😆😆😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was stationed on USS Wasp from 2000-03. OI Div
It was cool to see the USS Enterprise setting there.
This made me want to join the navy when I went in March it hasnt change really
Very cool !
Thank you 😎
Amigo extraordinario tu video , demasiado corto , te felicito y un cordial saludo desde Chile.
Amazing video thank you very much.
Excellent video !!
Thanks for your video, it’s one of the great bases of the US navy 👍
love to see some ship reviews of the USN mothball fleet!
many thx for the tour but the big-E it hurts folks it hurts so much.
wow does it bring back memories
Excellent vid
A nice day on the water.
A long time ago probably when I was 6 I think someone my parents knew worked at a ship yard in New Orleans and he gave me a picture of LPD-19 i didn't see that ship until i saw this video
I was an E-5 in the German Navy and served on P6115/FastPatrolBoat and the Tender of that squadroon, the Tender A516. 1997 we had a stop over in Poland and the battle group around the Carl Vinson CVN-70 was also in that Harbor (Gdansk/Poland). Besides some other ships there was the USS Anzio and I had an opportunity to get a tour.
It was when I learned that they had 164 Tomahawks on board and that their 3D-Radar had a reach of 800 nautical miles, I knew there and than that all our German Navy was just a pathetic waste of taxes.
That's an incredible amount of firepower in one spot.
Hi
But not nearly all of it. Very cool though this place is on my bucket list to visit.
@@MrBen527
If you like this place, you should visit Bremerton, Washington.
@@brianjordan2192 No, he should probably visit Norfolk. It's only the largest naval base in the world.
@@_EightySix
The video is about Norfolk, and he said it was already on his bucket list.
Maybe you should visit Bremerton, to see what it's all about.
The Big E is currently sitting in the North end dry dock at Newport News Shipyard. I see it everyday driving across the JRB, it looks very tired. I understand they are undecided what to do with it, because of the reactors and radiation levels in the ship itself.
I spent 2 and a half years at N.o.B and portsmith shipyards on board the USS America CV66
Very impressive 😲
I watched Enterprise being built there in the early 60’s
It’s so heartbreaking to see the Big E rotting away. A lot of memories on that bird farm. CR01 Div.
An impressive place. Loved the dockside bar and grill 🤣🤣
they turned it into a gym for old people
Grew up in South Texas and never saw it snow. Spent my first winter im the navy (1966-67) in Norfork. I kept asking the chief just what the hell I needed to do to get my 19 year old ass to Viet effing nam.
6:07
“It’s been a good run, but my time is almost here. It’s all up to you now. Will you take care of our home for me?”
“Don’t worry old friend, just rest now. I have the watch.”
Very cool video. I spent 3 years at NOB Norfolk pier 24 minus 3 Med cruises onboard AD44. Lots of memories there!
Drew McNicol i spent 5 yrs there ! USS Ponce LPD 15
whats AD44 ?
USS Shenandoah, a destroyer tender.
I was stationed on USS Cape Cod AD 43 in San Diego
It’s sad to see all of the tenders gone. Ad 43 was our sister ship.
Wow! I work on the base with these ships mail every day. So to see the ships is really interesting. Lol
Very nice video
The Big E. What a ship... 52years of sailing the Seas.
I hope to go underway some day on the USS San Antonio
I left pier 12 in 1976 saying goodbye to the USS Seattle AOE-3. Sure has grown up since leaving.
10 year Shipbuilder of the CVN 78 & 79 at Newport News, VA X31 Electrician, glad to have serviced our NAVY for 10 years, "Always good ships"...
I would get up every morning and see the BIG NNS&D crane across the bay.
@@rob1248996 We c her Big Blue, yeah, she got it done everyday..
Seeing the enterprise in that condition is just damn wrong on so many levels
Apparently they're scared to scrap the old Enterprise because of nuclear contamination concerns. It's a mess. Maybe they should make it a floating prison or something. I'd love to see it as a museum, but it's unlikely (CVN-67 is in better shape from what I've heard).
You should see how they did the Kitty Hawk. Poor girl is all yellow.
@@raintv4343 Yeah... Kitty Hawk over here in Washington is in bad state
Its being scraped at the shipyard that built it due to the fact that it’s the first of the Nuclear Carries that has been decommissioned. They wanted the job and it’s being done with respect by the yard that gave her life. Also it it’s the only place they could do it.
@@thunderbird1921 I served on the Kennedy (CV-67). It is in line to be scrapped in the next year. It is in Philly.
I remember Enterprise in PSNS back in 1981, sad to see her go.
Know pier 12 very well. Based out of Virginia Beach with VF41 Black Aces back in the day.
Real Tomcat tweekers were stationed at Miramar back in the day 🤘🤛VF124,VFC113
Was on Enterprise CVN-65 from 92-96. Miss her. As the new one, CVN-80, will carry her name, may she serve as well as the others who bore her name. Lady E/ Big E! Anchors aweigh, my boys, anchors aweigh.
We just took the Victory Rover cruise of Norfolk Wednesday. Well worth it if you in the area.
Was stationed at the D&S piers between 70/72 onboard the USS Dahlgren DLG-12. Don't miss Norfolk...
I was stationed at the D&S piers in 71/72 on AS-36 L.Y Spear. I DO miss Norfolk for some reason I can't explain.
The Big E looking pretty ragged. I wonder what my old berthing looks like now.
@Big Bill O'Reilly Civvies...
Better question is does it still smell like the same. I assume you didn't share a birth and didn't have to smell some one else's farts in your bedding.
@@terenfro1975 that depends on how good the AC was.
Funny thing is the one and only time i was at the base we were docked along side the Enterprise,i was on the old old HMS Ark Royal and we looked like a fly next to her...
(ps...stupidly left my shopping in the amusement arcade that was on the base and lost the lot...damn that hurt
Super!
My dad was on the SS SEMMES,1966-67.We lived in Portsmouth, Stanley court
Sad to see the old big "E" looking like that!!😳😲😭
I know, it's depressing that a ship that has served our nation as well as she has is reduced to that status.
HAZMAT FireGuy the USS Trump will replace it
@@danielprado3611 - "recycled"......and yes.
I hope she is turned into a museum for every US Ship named Enterprise
Dont worry guys, a new USS Enterprise (CVN-80), a Gerald R. Ford class Carrier is being built.
I’ve got to load those roro ships as part of the army and those big usns which are owned by the us army most of the landing crafts I’ve got to load. Fun times
I spent some time there in the late 60's and early 70's at pier 7
USS Newport News (CA-148) The last all gun Heavy Cruiser. My time aboard 1968-69-70 Call sign THUNDER flag hoist; November - India - Quebec - Quebec Then onboard the USS Springfield (CLG-7) 71-72 Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - Whiskey - Delta - Mike "Fair Winds and Following Seas" Brothers on your eternal patrol.
Nice video.
I miss being in the navy and being on that base
I spent a long time in deck division on truxtun, good to see they haven’t let her go to shit since I left
@Big Bill O'Reilly who said anything about getting booted out?
It's a newer ship, I hope they wouldn't let it go to shit. Was the Truxtun in this video the one you were on, or were you on CGN-35?
@@alexandermakrianis i was on 103, but a few months ago the Gravely looked like total ass and it's newer than truxtun. they've since fixed it.
you'll notice that the OHP class FFG sailing with gravely looked infinitely better despite being decades older.
www.snafu-solomon.com/2019/05/circling-back-to-old-chestnut-does-it.html
Verry good
They have the new Ford class carriers Kennedy and enterprise being built in newport news
missing on the Destroyers the Big fat Marshall Stack and the Song Castles made of Sand when such a Ship comes Home
와...미해군의 성지답다 몇년내로 꼭 가봐야지 ㅠㅠㅠ
1:15 on right you can see a 3 apartments and on the middle of 2 apartments that's where my grandpa lives
And he also served on uss wisconsin
4:22 Wow they have the USS BATAAN. Maybe they named that ship Bataan because of the battle of bataan in the philippines during WW2.
On the big E, to make the ship safe they have to rip the ship apart in order to remove the reactors so they can be safely disposed of. At that point it would cost to much to put her back together again to make a museum out of her. But parts of her will go to the new Enterprise just like parts of the previous Big E went into this one.
It's not just that. These super-carriers, even the old ones, are too "modern" in their construction to be turned into museums. Instead of scrapping CV-66 America, they did a month-long sink-ex on her in 2005 to see how durable they really are against modern weapons. After a month of conducting those tests, she still floated, so they scuttled her (conducting one final test while they were at it). The data gathered during these tests is being used in the designs of the Gerard R. Ford -class, and future carrier designs. That a +50-year-old ship can withstand such weapons fire and survive represents construction secrets that the US Navy would rather civilians (and potentially foreign spies) NOT be allowed to wander around and inspect at their leisure.
I wonder of they could do a SLEP program for the Flight one Arleigh Burke class DD's and bring them up to flight three standards.
I served 2 years on the Big E 1961 to 1963 days as Captain de Poix
liar
USS Enterprise once mighty at sea,its so sad to see her mooring in Norfolk,full of rust and waiting to be stripped apart.
The big E isn't in Norfolk it's in Huntington ingalls shipyard in newport news it's been there for the last 3 years they are pulling the old spent nuclear fuel out the reactors from the carrier
@@norms3913 dude they are like 2 miles away
@@randomdudestudios7637 the ford is out to sea out on sea trials so how can they be only 2 miles away from each other ? 😂
@@norms3913 dude I’m talking about Norfolk lmao when tf did I talk about the Ford
@@randomdudestudios7637 dude the new carrier isnt in Norfolk its out to sea 😅😅😅
I live near Quincy ma and we have the USS Salem by the bridge and I always have to look at just fascinated by the ships and the history pretty cool . Never been on one we have a place like an hour away called battleship cove I think in Fall River ma . I have a 7 year old doughter but she’s more interested in her stupid game
I was an AMS onboard the Enterprise.
Interesting all those support type ships.
Most people don't realize that the reason the US is the most powerful navy in the world isn't because we've got a whole bunch of Burke-class Destroyers - it's because we have the logistics ships to keep our vessels moving, in combat-ready condition, on a regular and predictable schedule.
And they are crewed by civilians, with a few navy folks here and there.
You missed the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth!
Probably, afraid of the "YARD BIRDS" ! "Bad Language" ! Spent 6 months, there, 1st ship, "Whipping" welding Rods, @ sea Gulls.
I heard there was a Chappaquiddick class, but it sunk.
Amen brother Gregorio Arriaga
2019-8-29th: Beginning from 2 minutes and 37 seconds, this video is showing the type of flying machine with my initial designing and inventive idea. I named this type of airplane with helicopter's feature "copterplane" or "heliplane". 我認為這種飛行器可以很好地擔當起救災和救援以及運輸等工作。
How come the description didn't stay up longer? Very frustrating trying to read and look at the pictures in such a short time!
Chris Skaurud ....pause
Slow the video down.
I truly hope someday they make the USS Enterprise cvn-65 I Museum. She has such a wonderful history and her predecessor.
Sorry to say, she is gonna be turned into razor blades.
They won't
That's horrible to think it's going to turn into razor blades!
@@TN_Whiskey they already have scrapped her original escorts, the Long Beach. She was sent to the breakers yard years ago. Those were some sad pictures.
@@n5syr01 wasn't taking to you
Sad sight, supported her and the Ranger and Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin. Vietnam Vet USN
The Big E was a very unique ship it's a shame shes gone.
Not happening. To many construction secrets to let foreigners walk around her.
And the prize for best looking ship goes to......USS Wisconsin. No contest. Round of applause please !
I had to mute the electronic music, or whatever that was.
Could you go a little bit slower with the written descriptions of the ships? I don't read particularly fast, and basically got most of the ship names, but little else.
The only NAVAL shipyard in the Hampton Roads area is Norfolk Naval Shipyard and its not pictured in any of this video.
Love the World War II battleships USA they were the best wonder how many new ships are going to be built
I saw my old ship and my husband's next to each other aww
what is for lunch 2084
its the USS arleigh Burke getting scrapped or updated?
Look at all those floating prisons...beautiful.
hey thats what the sailors call it
Home sweet home.
This video only showed the piers, the entire military complex is unbelievably huge and docks are only a small part of it.
Additionally there are two airfields, multiple large building, two submarine docks that for some reason are covered from above and multiple construction dry docks.
Not to mention the building that used to be the US largest military office building until the Pentagon was built, W-143.
My home port from 81 to 85
Give me a good old Gearing Class Destroyer any time.
How about a tour inside
I wanna visit that in late 2020, will the Enterprise still be there or will it be scrapped till then? Id really like to see it as long its possible
xxcrysiscgx _ it’s going to take few years, I’m hearing late 2021 before it’s completely done. It could be sooner. Well worth the trip. I drive by her everyday.
Hopefully the new Enterprise will be far enough along that they can get a picture of both of them together before 65 is finally scrapped.
@@davidpearson3304 That would be an amazing photo
Battleship go boom.
Uss enterprise appeared top gun launching f14 from flight deck