Advocates praised defense leaders for excluding shipyard workers and other key readiness jobs from a department-wide hiring ...

It has three floating dry docks, a 1,000-ton marine travel lift and marine railway. The company employs roughly 750 people, including 600 in the Berkley section of Norfolk; 100 at Accurity ...

Six probationary civilian employees at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard were laid off on Tuesday ... its workforce to accommodate ...

successfully docked for maintenance work at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on Sunday, March 8, shipyard officials announced. While at the shipyard, USS Hampton, which entered Dry Dock 1, will undergo ...

Charles J. Colonna got a $2,000 loan from his brother to establish a horse-drawn marine railway to service the thriving seaport on the banks of the Elizabeth River in Norfolk. Colonna, in his mid-20s, ...

Here, the amphibious assault ship Kearsarge sits in dry dock at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Virginia, in 2009. (PO1 Emmitt Hawks Jr./Navy) ...