CVN-77 nearing completion
Posted on 10/03/2006 8:06:52 AM PDT by Jeff Head
CVN-77 to be Christened on October 7th, 2006
From the Northrop Grumman site.
On Saturday, October 7, 2006, Northrop Grumman Newport News will christen the nation’s 10th and final Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, George H. W. Bush (CVN 77). The ship’s namesake and 41st President of the United States, George H. W. Bush, is scheduled to attend the ceremony along with his wife Barbara and their daughter, Doro Bush Koch, Mrs. Koch also serves as the ship’s sponsor and will do the traditional honor of breaking a bottle of American sparkling wine across the ship’s bow during the ceremony. Employees of Northrop Grumman Newport News and their families are invited. The general public is also invited to the ceremony. Visit the links below for additional information.Here are some of the latest construction pictures...a beautiful site to behold:
CVN-77 nearing completion
CVN-77 props added
CVN-77 Island lift
CVN-77 ready for christening
CVN-77 another view of CVN-77 ready for christening
Can't they just name all our aircraft carriers after Ronald Reagan?
Discovery Channel HD has an episode of Extreme Engineering featuring this carrier. I just saw it last week.
God bless you, and thank you for that service. You should speak to Freeper CVA66snipe. You guys could probably sit for hours and trade stories...with that experience of yours, and the same that his FR name emplys, hehehe, I KNOW you could.
Well yes, but that was right after the fall of the Soviet Union. The long range plan then called for much lower levels of cuts than Slick 42 eventually put in, and that Bush 43 never reversed by building things back up, aside from a small increase in the Army, balanced by further cuts in the Air Force and Navy.
I think the Kennedy will go first. In the state she is in...she should IMHO. The Japanese shipyards have taken good care of the KH!
Great post, beautiful ship, but I hate seeing the German dock crane.
Every U.S. Navy ship has several USS Clinton's aboard.
They are called "heads".
Now that would be a fitting ship to name for him. A US Navy Hostpital ship.
"When does construction begin on the USS Clinton SCOW?"
There, I fixed it!
Here is a pic.
http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/regulatory/mprsa/images/garbage.jpg
I was thinking the same thing ... but the Clinton needs to be a sub ... cigar shaped and full of seamen.
This one is named for his father...41...HW. My guess is GW will get one named for him too some day.
I doubt that the Kittyhawk will be far behind. Maintenance budgets are getting axed left and right to pay for Iraq.
Wow the island on the new class sits way back there.
They should neame the new class of carriers the Ronald Reagan class...but with CVN-76 already named for him...that's not going to happen.
I'm glad he's still around and able to be there, and that Bar will be able to christen it.
I still think we need to start a campaign and get the first CVX to be named "Lexington" or "Langley" the second CVX MUST be named "Enterprise".
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