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Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Navy coming back to Wilmington this fall for ship commissioning

Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyerImpressed with its first visit to Wilmington for a warship commissioning in decades, the Navy is coming back.

In a release late Tuesday, city officials announced that the military brass has decided to return to the Port City for the commissioning of the USS Gravely.

The ceremony to officially welcome the 509-foot-long destroyer – named after the first African-American to command a Navy ship – to the fleet will take place this fall.

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