NamesSecretary of the Navy Ray Mabus hosted a ship-naming ceremony May 24 in Jersey City, NJ, to announce that SSN 796, a Virginia-class attack submarine, will bear the name USS New Jersey. New Jersey was where USS Holland, the Navy's first submarine, was designed and constructed in ...
Delaware (SSN 791), which successfully completed sea trials earlier this month, is the ninth Virginia-class submarine to be delivered by Newport News and the 18th built as part of the teaming agreement with General Dynamics Electric Boat. The submarine is the second ship to be named for the ...
Everything seemed sunny even before Seelinger joined the project. Seeing the success of the U.S.S. Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, Eisenhower’s Republican administration saw a way to further America’s image abroad and invigorate private enterprise at home, by commissioning a civil...
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus hosted a ship-naming ceremony to announce SSN 794, a Virginia-class attack submarine, will bear the name USS Montana. The submarine will be named to honor the history its namesake state has with the Navy. The future USS Montana will be the second ...
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COMMENT Of the Virginia-class attack submarines given names thus far, two are not named after US states but are named in honour of prominent Americans: One is named for a US congressman, the future USS John Warner (SSN 785) - the second Block III Virginia class, expected to be handed ...