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Wednesday, February 05, 2014

Navy reschedules christening of stealth destroyer USS Zumwalt

USS ZumwaltThe future USS Zumwalt, a nearly $4 billion stealth destroyer being built at Bath Iron Works, will be christened on Saturday, April 12.

The christening was originally scheduled for Oct. 19, 2013, but was postponed due to the government shutdown.

The first of three DDG 1000 destroyers under construction at the Bath shipyard, the 610-foot Zumwalt’s primary function is land attack — to provide missile and gun support for troops ashore, according to Todd Estes, manager of the DDG 1000 program office at BIW.

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