The next morning I was excited to take the boys on a cruise of the harbor and the Navel shipyards. Norfolk is the largest Navel Station in the world along with plenty of civilian ship yards and dry docks spread through out the area. This is also the site of the famous Civil War Battle of Hampton Roads between the two ironclad ships that forever changed the Navy both here and abroad by showing the strength of ironclad ships and making wooded ships almost null and void in battle.
A Coast Guard boat.
Tim enjoying the 2 hour cruise.
Look close and you can see the hulls to two subs barely sticking out of the water on the right side of the pier.
A boat in dry dock.
The USS Gerald R. Ford, our newest Air Craft Carrier that is to be commissioned this year and deployed for the first time in 2021.
The USS Bainbidge, a missile destroyer that assisted in apprehending the Somali pirates that hijacked the Maersk Alabama in April 2009.
A container ship being loaded. Later in the day we saw this same ship leaving the Chesapeake Bay and heading into the Atlantic.
Not, one, not two, but three Air Craft Carriers were in port. The USS Abe Lincoln, the USS George Washington and the the USS Gerold R. Ford. The deck on these things is 4 plus acres in size.
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