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USS Savannah (LCS 28) Christened

02/05/2021
Ships’ sponsor Mrs Dianne Isakson (centre) was ships sponsor for the christening ceremony of the future...
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USS Montana Christened

02/05/2021
Former Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, right, christens the Virginia-class submarine USS Montana, also...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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Rear Adm. Thomas Wettlaufer, Commander, Military Sealift Command, addresses attendees of the christening ceremony for MSC's newest ship, USNS Miguel Keith (T-ESB 5), at the General Dynamics, NASSCO shipyard in San Diego. Miguel Keith is the fifth ship in the expeditionary mobile base platform build for MSC, and the third expeditionary staging base model. The ship will be delivered to the MSC fleet later this year, where it will support a variety of maritime-based missions, including Special Operations Forces and Airborne Mine Counter Measures support operations, humanitarian and traditional military missions.

USNS Miguel Keith Christened at General Dynamics NASSCO San Diego

03/09/2020
Rear Adm. Thomas Wettlaufer, Commander, Military Sealift Command, addresses attendees of the christening ceremony for...
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USS Cooperstown (LCS 23) Christened

03/01/2020
https://youtu.be/2f_TMCfBcpE Article originally appears courtesy of Fox 11 News (March 1, 2020) A celebration was held...
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USS Oregon (SSN 793) Christened in Connecticut

02/02/2020
The U.S. Navy’s newest attack submarine, the future USS Oregon, is christened in a ceremony at...
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190427-N-N0101-111 BATH, Maine (April 27, 2019) Capt. Jeremy Gray, left, prospective commanding officer of the the future Zumwalt-class guided-missile destroyer USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG 1003); Luci Baines Johnson and Lynda Johnson Robb, ship's sponsors and daughters of former President Lyndon B. Johnson, the ship's namesake; and Dirk Lesko, president of General Dynamics Bath Iron Works; pose for a photo aboard Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU) Lyndon B. Johnson during the ship's christening ceremony, April 27, 2019 at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. Lyndon B. Johnson is the third ship in the Zumwalt class of guided-missile destroyers. (U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Bath Iron Works/Released)

Navy Christens USS Lyndon B. Johnson DDG 1002

08/04/2019
BATH, Maine (April 27, 2019) Capt. Jeremy Gray, left, prospective commanding officer of the the...
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190427-N-IX266-005 NAHA, Japan—Bruni Bradley, sponsor to Military Sealift Command’s high-speed transport USNS Guam (T-HST 1), breaks a bottle during the christening ceremony of USNS Guam, April 27. Bradley, a 25-year Navy veteran, officially declared the Guam christened after breaking a bottle of sparkling wine against the ship’s side railing of the main deck. (Navy photo by Grady T. Fontana/Released)

USNS Guam (T HST 1) Christened

08/04/2019
Bruni Bradley, sponsor to Military Sealift Command’s high-speed transport USNS Guam (T-HST 1), breaks a bottle during...
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