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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Navy Commissions Submarine New Hampshire

The Navy’s newest attack submarine New Hampshire (SSN 778) will be commissioned Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008, during a 10 a.m. EDT ceremony at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine.

Sen. Judd Gregg will deliver the ceremony’s principal address. The ship’s sponsor, Cheryl McGuinness of Portsmouth, N.H., is the widow of Lt. Cmdr. Thomas McGuinness, a veteran Navy pilot and co-pilot of American Airlines Flight 11 which was flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001.

The ceremony will be highlighted by a time-honored Navy tradition when McGuinness gives the order to “man our ship and bring her to life!”

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