Keel Authentication Ceremonies

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Keel Laying for USNS Newport

01/29/2019
(Twitter/Austal USA) Original article appears courtesy of UPI The U.S. Navy laid the keel for its...
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USS Cooperstown Keel Laying

12/14/2018
A welder authenticates the keel of LCS 23, the future USS Cooperstown, by welding the initials...
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Keel Laying for USS Mobile

12/14/2018
(Flickr/Austal USA) Original article appears courtesy of NAVSEA The U.S. Navy held a keel laying and...
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Keel Authenticated for the Future USNS Puerto Rico

08/09/2018
Keel Laying Ceremony 8/9/18 (Austal USA) Original article appears courtesy of the Military Sealift Command A...
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Keel Laid for USS Oakland

07/20/2018
(Austal USA) Original article appears courtesy of Defpost Austal USA has laid the keel for the...
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Keel Laying for USS Daniel Inouye

05/04/2018
Irene Hirano Inouye, future USS Daniel Inouye (DDG 118) sponsor and wife of the late...
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Keel Laid for Future Miguel Keith

02/22/2018
Matron of Honor Mary Easley welds the initials of Lance Corporal Miguel Keith’s mother.(NASSCO) Original...
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PCU Minneapolis-St Paul Keel Laid

02/22/2018
(Photo from KLUK TV/SEAWAVES) (Photo and article originally appeared courtesy of SEAWAVES) The U.S. Navy held...
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171115-N-N0701-003 MOBILE, Ala. (Nov. 15, 2017) Scott Beauchemin, left, from General Dynamics Mission Systems; Adm. Phil Davidson, commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command; ship's sponsor Tracy Davidson; Craig Perciavalle, Austal USA president; Adan Silva-Garibay, an Austal USA A-class welder; Tim McCue, Austal USA vice president of the Littoral Combat Ship Program, and Adm. John Neagley, pose for a photograph during a keel laying ceremony for the future Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Kansas City (LCS 22) at the Austal USA shipyard. USS Kansas City is the second ship to be named for Kansas City, Mo., the largest city in the state. (U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Austal USA/Released)

Keel Laid for Future USS Kansas City (LCS 22)

11/15/2017
MOBILE, Ala. (Nov. 15, 2017) Scott Beauchemin, left, from General Dynamics Mission Systems; Adm. Phil...
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Future USS Leah H. Sutcliffe Higbee (DDDG 123) Keel Authenticated

11/14/2017
Ship’s Sponsors (left to right) Virginia Munford, Louisa Dixon and Pickett Wilson trace their initials...
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