U.S. Sen. Tom Carper, a 23-year veteran of the Navy, participated in a keel-laying ceremony of Virginia class submarine USS Delaware - SSN 791 at the Newport News Shipyard April 30. A keel-laying ceremony is the formal recognition of the start of a ship's construction. The last naval vessel to bear the name USS Delaware was decommissioned in 1923. In 2012, a letter to the editor by Delawarean Steven Llanso ... Source
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