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Posted on Sunday, November 4, 2007 - 5:16 am:

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BOSTON -- The U.S. Navy's fleet grows by one ship with the commissioning of the USS Sampson in Boston.

The Sampson is a guided missile destroyer that was manufactured at the Bath Iron Works in Maine.

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Posted on Friday, November 16, 2007 - 3:49 am:

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SAN DIEGO, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- General Dynamics NASSCO, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), today delivered USNS Richard E. Byrd (T-AKE 4) to the U.S. Navy. The ship is the third T-AKE-class ship delivered by the San Diego shipyard in 2007, the fourth overall.

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Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2007 - 6:25 am:

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PANAMA CITY, Fla. (NNS) -- The Navy will commission the newest San Antonio class amphibious transport dock ship Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU) Mesa Verde Dec. 15 in Panama City.

The ship is named to honor the Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado. In 1906, Congress established Mesa Verde as the first cultural park in the National Park Systems. This is the first U.S. Navy ship to be named Mesa Verde.

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Posted on Monday, December 17, 2007 - 4:05 am:

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The Navy bid adieu to its last four Osprey-class coastal minehunter ships Dec. 1, leaving the service to rely on 14 Avenger-class minehunters and the nascent Littoral Combat Ship program to fill the niche mission of surveying shallow coastal waters for mines.

The decommissioning ceremony was held at Naval Station Ingleside, Texas. The ships — Black Hawk, Cormorant, Kingfisher and Shrike — were capable of clearing harbors and other coastal waters of various types of underwater mines.

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Posted on Monday, December 17, 2007 - 4:26 pm:

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PANAMA CITY, Fla., Dec. 15, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman-built (NYSE:NOC) Mesa Verde was commissioned into the U.S. Navy's Atlantic Fleet here today on the Florida Gulf Coast. Speaking to a crowd of more than 4,000, former U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado congratulated the shipbuilding team and future crew of the amphibious transport dock ship.

Photos accompanying this release are available at http://media.primezone.com/noc/

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Posted on Saturday, February 9, 2008 - 7:34 am:

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GROTON, Conn. (NNS) -- The Los Angeles class fast-attack submarine USS Augusta (SSN 710) conducted an inactivation ceremony at the Naval Submarine Base New London's Shepherd of the Sea chapel Feb. 7.

Augusta lived up to its motto, "protecting the frontier" for more than two decades. Most recently, she returned from a six-month deployment to the U.S. European Command's area of responsibility September 2007, where she completed a wide range of joint requirements supporting national security.

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Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 6:51 am:

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The Navy plans to say goodbye to an aircraft carrier and three amphibious ships in the next fiscal year.

The Austin-class amphibious transport dock ships (LPDs) Juneau and Nashville, amphibious assault ship Tarawa (LHA 1) and the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk are slated to leave the fleet in fiscal 2009.

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Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 6:06 am:

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AUGUSTA (SSN 710) 01 MAR 08 SEE NOTE 1
SPICA (T-AFS 9) 26 JAN 08 SEE NOTE 2
NIAGARA FALLS (T-AFS 3) 30 SEP 08 SEE NOTE 2

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Posted on Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 5:44 am:

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WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Navy took delivery of its newest attack submarine, Pre-commissioning unit North Carolina (SSN 777), from Northrop Grumman Newport News (NGNN) Feb. 21. North Carolina is the fourth Virginia-class submarine and the second delivered by NGNN.

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Posted on Friday, February 29, 2008 - 4:30 am:

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WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Navy will christen the newest San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship New York (LPD 21) at 10 a.m. CST on March 1, 2008, during a ceremony at Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding facilities in New Orleans.

The ship is named New York in honor of the state, the city and the victims of Sept. 11, 2001. A unique characteristic of the ship is the use of 7.5 tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center wreckage that was incorporated into the construction process. The steel was melted and formed to make the bow stem of the ship. Use of this steel symbolizes the spirit and resiliency of the people of New York. The official motto of New York is: "Never Forget."

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Posted on Sunday, March 2, 2008 - 1:54 am:

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AVONDALE, La. — Thousands of people, including families of those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, gathered Saturday for a poignant and uplifting service to christen a Navy ship built with twisted steel from the ruins of the World Trade Center.

The hulking gray New York will cut through the seas with a hull made in part from 7.5 tons of Trade Center steel. A seal on its bow stem is emblazoned with two gray bars to symbolize the Twin Towers and a banner that declares, “Never Forget.”

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Posted on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 - 6:55 am:

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WASHINGTON — The Navy’s newest attack submarine, the New Hampshire, will be formally commissioned at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in October.

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Posted on Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 5:51 am:

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WILMINGTON, N.C. (NNS) -- The Navy's newest attack submarine North Carolina will be commissioned May 3, during a 10 a.m. EDT ceremony at Port of Wilmington.

Designated SSN 777, the fourth submarine of the Virginia-class will bear the name North Carolina to honor the Tar Heel State. The submarine will be the fourth ship of the U.S. Navy to bear the name North Carolina.

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Posted on Saturday, May 3, 2008 - 4:30 pm:

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The Navy’s newest Virginia-class fast-attack submarine, the North Carolina, is to formally join the fleet today in a commissioning ceremony in its namesake state.

The North Carolina is the fourth ship in its class of advanced submarines, the first subs ever built without an optical periscope — they use a digital “photonics mast” instead — and the fourth ship to bear the name.

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Posted on Monday, May 5, 2008 - 6:19 am:

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WILMINGTON, N.C. — Master Chief Barry Swofford joined the Navy in the 1980s, volunteered for the “silent service” and got down to work stalking Soviet submarines.

“That was the threat. That was the job,” Swofford said.

But two decades later, the Russian submarines Swofford spent a career chasing don’t pose much of a threat. Terrorism is the nation’s primary concern, and fighting it is the mission he’ll take to sea aboard his new assignment and the Navy’s latest sub: the North Carolina.

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Posted on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 4:37 pm:

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The U.S. Navy has accepted delivery of the latest Lewis-and-Clark class of dry cargo/ammunition vessels from General Dynamic's San Diego-based National Steel and Shipbuilding Co.
The USNS Robert E. Peary, named for the famed American explorer of the Artic, is the fifth of the T-AKE program's supply vessels being built by NASSCO under $2.8 billion in government contracts.

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Posted on Thursday, June 19, 2008 - 6:06 am:

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The Navy’s newest Virginia-class attack submarine, the New Hampshire, is scheduled to be christened Saturday at its shipyard in Groton, Conn., the Navy announced.

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Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 4:08 am:

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GROTON, Conn. — The Navy invoked the war on terrorism Saturday as it christened its newest attack submarine.

The New Hampshire was christened by the widow of a pilot who was killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

“I believe I’m looking at heroes,” Cheryl McGuinness, of Portsmouth, N.H., said, looking at the ship’s crew. “You all are my heroes.”

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Posted on Monday, June 23, 2008 - 5:30 am:

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KEYPORT, Wash. (NNS) -- More than 150 service members and guests, including some Sailors, attended a traditional commissioning ceremony for the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Sea Devil (WPB 87368) held at Naval Base (NB) Kitsap Keyport pier, June 20.

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Posted on Sunday, July 6, 2008 - 4:32 pm:

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BALTIMORE — For the first time in nearly a quarter-century, a major naval warship will be commissioned in Baltimore.

The Sterett, a $1.3 billion guided missile destroyer,...

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Posted on Sunday, August 3, 2008 - 5:17 am:

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BALTIMORE — Officials say the Navy’s newest guided-missile destroyer, the Sterrett, arrives Aug. 9 in Baltimore.

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Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2008 - 3:54 pm:

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NORFOLK (NNS) -- Fleet Composite Squadron (VC) 6 was deactivated Aug. 7, in a ceremony held on Naval Station Norfolk.

Established in 1952 as Utility Squadron 6, VC-6 was originally designed to provide aerial target services for U.S. Naval forces in the Atlantic Ocean. After changing their name, the Firebees of VC-6 expanded their mission to include providing airborne reconnaissance and real-world threat simulations.

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Posted on Monday, August 11, 2008 - 4:51 am:

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BALTIMORE (Map, News) - By the order of a descendant of the USS Sterett’s namesake, over 200 sailors and officers raced from the dock of the Locus Point Terminal in Baltimore, up the gangplanks and onto the hulking gray destroyer, lining her railings.

The Sterett’s cannon roared, its horn blasted and its gizmos whirled as its flags were raised for the first time.

In the fading Saturday evening light, the Sterett – with steep connections to Baltimore history - became an official U.S. Navy warship.

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