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Dec. 10, 2010 / 10:40 AM

Northrop fits carrier with new propellers

NAV2003032112 -USS Theodore Roosevelt, March 20 (UPI) -- USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) currently deployed, powers through the Mediterranean Sea conducting missions in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom on March 20, 2003. rlw/U.S. Navy photo/Todd M. Flint UPI.

NAV2003032112 -USS Theodore Roosevelt, March 20 (UPI) -- USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) currently deployed, powers through the Mediterranean Sea conducting missions in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom on March 20, 2003. rlw/U.S. Navy photo/Todd M. Flint UPI. | License Photo

NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Dec. 10 (UPI) -- The carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, undergoing overhaul by Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, has been outfitted with new propulsion shafts and propellers.

The installation on the CVN 71, which involved removing, refurbishing and reinstalling the ship's propulsion shafts and 60,000 pound propellers, was completed this month following about 15 months of work.

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"This is a significant accomplishment in a very large and complex project," said Todd West, CVN 71 program director for Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding-Newport News. "Installing the ship's propulsion shafts and propellers is a significant accomplishment performed during the docking phase of the overhaul and brings us one step closer to moving the ship out of dry dock and back into the water."

The carrier is undergoing a refueling and complex overhaul at the company's Shipbuilding sector in Newport News Va., the nation's sole designer, builder and refueler of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.

The refueling and overhaul project is scheduled to last more than three years and will be the ship's one and only refueling and complex overhaul in a 50-year life span.

The USS Theodore Roosevelt is the fourth ship of the Nimitz class to undergo this major life-cycle milestone.

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