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Sunday, October 28, 2012
Shipyard christens new Navy attack submarine Minnesota
Newport News Shipbuilding has christened the new U.S. Navy fast-attack submarine Minnesota.
Ellen Roughead, a Minnesota native and wife of former Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead, broke a bottle of American sparkling wine across the hull to christen the Virginia-class, nuclear-powered submarine Saturday.
Construction of the vessel began in February 2008 and is 88 percent complete. The company says as many as 1,000 shipbuilders worked on the Minnesota.
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