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We are Ships from
Cradle to Grave
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DDG 51 Arleigh Burke Class
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ATLANTIC OCEAN - (May 20, 2010) The Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU) Jason Dunham (DDG 109) conducts sea trials in the Atlantic Ocean. Jason Dunham successfully completed a combined builder's and acceptance "super trial" during four days at sea. The trials are the last significant milestone before delivery of the ship to the Navy in summer 2010. The ship will be commissioned in November 2010. (Photo courtesy of General Dynamics Bath Iron Works/Released)
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Keel plate authenticated by Ann Zumwalt, Mouzetta Zumwalt-Weathers (ship's cosponsors & daughters of ADM Elmo Zumwalt) and LtCol James G. Zumwalt, USMC (Ret.) (ADM Zumwalt's son. The initials in the lower right corner are those of ADM Zumwalt's other son, Elmo R. Zumwalt III who is deceased. The three surviving children struck welding arcs on Elmo's initials to authenticate that the keel is well and truly laid. (Photo credits to General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Michael C. Nutter) |
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| AVONDALE, La. (April 14, 2012) The amphibious transport dock ship Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU) Somerset (LPD 25) is launched from the Huntington Ingalls Industries Avondale Shipyard. Somerset is the ninth San Antonio-class ship and is named in honor of the county where passengers aboard United Airlines flight 93 crashed the hijacked airliner during the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. USS Anchorage (LPD 23) is in the background. (U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Huntington Ingalls Industries/Released) |
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SAN DIEGO (Oct. 24, 2009) U.S. Marines and Sailors man the rails during the commissioning ceremony of the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8). (U.S. Marine photo by LCpl Meghan Gonzales/Released)
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Lynne Pace, sponsor of the amphibious assault ship America (LHA 6), and Irwin F. Edenzon (left front), sector vice president and general manager of Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding-Gulf Coast (now Huntington Ingalls Industries), thank Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding welder James Sumlin Jr. for welding Pace's initials onto the keel plate during a keel authentication ceremony. (Photo courtesy Huntington Ingalls industries/Released) |
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T-AKE Lewis and Clark Class
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RED SEA (Feb. 28, 2010) The Military Sealift Command dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Robert E. Peary (T-AKE 5) is underway in the Red Sea. (U.S. Navy photo, by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jason R. Zalasky/Released) |
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