After more than 100 gate docking and undocking operations across more than 45 years, Concrete Tech Corp.’s Tacoma dry dock was in need of a replacement caisson gate, a 150-ft-long floating concrete ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Norfolk Naval Shipyard broke ground Wednesday on a $300 million renovation that will modernize a historic dry dock to serve the ...

The caisson gate is a concrete floating structure that acts as a watertight lock at the dry dock’s entrance. It functions by sinking when the dry dock is empty by flooding its compartments with ...

Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) hosted a ribbon cutting for the renovation of its historic Dry Dock 4 on Wednesday. The $191 million renovation of the dry dock, which was opened in 1919, will support ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – Norfolk Naval Shipyard hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday to celebrate the renovations to Dry Dock 4. The $191 million project took more than three years to complete ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division worked with the Virginia Marine Resource Commission (VMRC) to make a donation that benefits both the environment and local anglers.

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The historic Dry Dock 4 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard got a multi-million-dollar makeover. “We are all bearing witness to living history and the modernization of a 255-year-old shipyard, ...

HII announced its Newport News Shipbuilding division partnered with the Virginia Marine Resource Commission (VMRC) to donate and sink a former dry dock caisson gate offshore, giving it new life as ...

USS Constitution, ‘Old Ironsides’, will enter dry dock May 18 for a nearly three year restoration with most of the work being done below the waterline and the bow area. The timeline of events leading ...