MARINE REPAIR PLANTS

The ports of Hampton Roads are well equipped to handle all classes of repair work to vessels of all sizes, as well as to their machinery and equipment. Facilities are also available for the construction of vessels of all sizes and types. These plants are generally equipped with dry docks or marine railways, or arrangements can be made for their use when necessary.

The largest as well as one of the most completely equipped construction and repair plants of the country is that of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., located at the northerly end of Newport News. This plant, employing up to 5,500 men, undertakes marine work of every description, including the production of shaft ingots up to 25,000 pounds in weight.

Other large plants are operated by the Norfolk Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Corporation and the Colonna's Shipyard, Inc., at Norfolk; the Southern Shipyard Corporation at Newport News, which has a 3,000ton marine railway; the Norfolk Marine Railway Co., in Berkley, with a 1,000-ton marine railway, and the Old Dominion Marine Railway Corporation which has several marine railways, one of which is capable of handling vessels of 2,000 tons displacement.

These and other repair plants in Hampton Roads are described in the following table: