Enterprise Week

BySteeljawscribe

October 3, 1936: a naval legend is born:

On a bright October Saturday in 1936, a sleek steel hull, 800 feet in length, towering over the assembled dignitaries and onlookers, slipped the ways of Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. The autumn air ringing with the words from Shakespeare’s Othello – "May she also say with just pride: I have done the State some service" – the great ship was christened Enterprise, the seventh ship of that now-historic name to serve the United States. (source: www.CV6.org)


October 2, 1956 – she is betrayed…
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