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Sunday, March 17, 2013
Shipyard lays keel of the John Warner submarine
On Saturday the former lawmaker whose fingerprints are all over Newport News Shipbuilding's involvement in the construction of Virginia-class nuclear submarines watched as his initials were welded onto a piece of the shipyard's latest boat.
In a rarity in military shipbuilding, the shipyard laid the keel of a fast-attack submarine with its namesake, former senator and Secretary of the Navy John Warner, in attendance.
The boat is the 12th in the Virginia-class program and it is scheduled for delivery to the Navy in 2015.
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