yes, they were needed
The structural element of the USS Nimitz was built in Newport News, Virginia by Newport News Shipbuilding in 1968. The Nimitz was later given to the Navy at Naval Station Norfolk.
Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock. There are several others in the same area, including Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portmouth VA.
The US Navy yard at Norfolk, Virginia was seized by the Confederates, yielding many naval cannon which they used for years.
The Naval Station in Norfolk is located at 1530 Gilbert Street, Suite 2000 in Norfolk Virginia. This is the official location for anything to do with the Navy's Operations.
That is the correct spelling of the proper noun "Norfolk" (notably a naval port in Virginia).
The Norfolk Naval Base is located in Norfolk, Virginia. It occupies 4 miles of waterfront, and seven miles of wharf space at Sewell's Point on the Hampton Roads peninsula. It supports naval operations in the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
Norfolk, Virginia
Apprentice Boys at Newport - R-I- Naval Training Station 1909 was released on: USA: 10 August 1909
troops
The web address of the Hampton Roads Naval Museum is: http://www.hrnm.navy.mil
Probably going to be either Pearl Harbor (U.S. Naval Base, Hawaii), or possibly Murmansk, a Russian naval base in far north of Russia near the border with Finland..I would start with those two...
US Naval War College in Newport, RI.