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Sunday, July 10, 2011

JFK honoured with new US warship

USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78)The US Navy's next aircraft carrier is being named the John F Kennedy -- the second time an aircraft carrier has been named after the assassinated president.

The first USS John F Kennedy made a high-profile visit here in 1996 when it was visited by more than 10,000 people in Dublin Bay.

But high winds in the bay caused the boarding pontoon to tear a large hole in the JFK's hull. The visit was planned to honour JFK and Commodore John Barry, from Co Wexford, regarded as the "father of the US Navy".

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