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USS Delaware Commissioned

08/19/2020
(The Maritime Executive) Original article appears courtesy of U.S. Department of Defense The U.S. Navy commissioned...
Commissionings
The assistant navigator informs the commanding officer, executive officer and chief of the boat that the commissioning pennant has been fully raised aboard USS Vermont (SSN 792), bringing the ship to life during a small commissioning ceremony held by the crew. Vermont is the 19th Virginia-class fast-attack submarine. In photo, from left on the top of the sail to right, Senior Chief Electronics Technician (SS) Shawn Mason, assistant navigator; Electronics Technician Seaman Joshua Ragan; Lt. Austin Thompson, weapons officer; Lt. Cmdr. Martín Roschmann, executive officer; Cmdr. Charles W. Phillips III, commanding officer. (U.S. Navy photo by Mark Jones/Released)

USS Vermont Commissioned

08/19/2020
The assistant navigator informs the commanding officer, executive officer and chief of the boat that...
Commissionings
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Navy Lays Keel of Future USS Savannah (LCS 28)

03/10/2020
The ship’s sponsor, Dianne Isakson, wife of U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, authenticated the keel for...
Keel Authentication Ceremonies
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Keel Laid for USS Nantucket

03/10/2020
Original article appears courtesy of WLUK/Marinette, WI A keel-laying ceremony is held at Marinette Marine...
Keel Authentication Ceremonies
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Keel Laid for First-in-Class USNS Navajo

03/10/2020
Gulf Island Shipyard held a keel laying ceremony on Oct. 30 for the future USNS Navajo (T-ATS...
Keel Authentication Ceremonies
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Huntington Ingalls Industries Authenticates Keel of Guided Missile Destroyer Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125)

03/10/2020
Ship’s Sponsors (left to right) Catherine B. Reynolds and Ruby Lucas trace their initials onto...
Keel Authentication Ceremonies
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USS Canberra Keel Laying

03/10/2020
Marise Payne, minister for foreign affairs in Australia, welds her initials into the keel of...
Keel Authentication Ceremonies
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U.S. Navy Christens Expeditionary Fast Transport Newport

03/10/2020
Dignitaries, guests, officials and other community members celebrate at the christening ceremony of the USNS Newport (EPF-12)...
Christenings
191207-N-ZI768-1505 NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (Dec. 7, 2019) - President John F. Kennedy’s daughter, the Honorable Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan and the ship’s sponsor, smashes a champagne bottle over the hull of the John F. Kennedy. On Dec. 7, 2019, the John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) was christened at Huntington Ingalls Industries' Newport News Shipbuilding (HII-NNS) division, in Newport News, Virginia. Kennedy is the second ship in the next-generation USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78)-class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and will be followed by the future USS Enterprise (CVN 80) and the future unnamed CVN-81. The aircraft carrier is named after John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, who served in office from January 1961 to November 1963. This is the second U.S. aircraft carrier named for President Kennedy, with the former being the last conventionally powered carrier, CV-67, which served from 1968 to 2007. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Cory J. Daut)

More than 20,000 Attendees Ship’s Sponsor Christens PCU John F. Kennedy

03/10/2020
President John F. Kennedy’s daughter, the Honorable Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan...
Christenings
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Future USS Mobile (LCS 26) Christened

03/10/2020
(Image Courtesy of Times San Diego) An audience of over a thousand dignitaries, community leaders, and...
Christenings