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Navy to name fast-attack submarine Vermont
http://hamptonroads.com/2014/09/navy-name-fastattack-submarine-vermontNavy to name fast-attack submarine Vermont
By Wilson Ring
The Associated Press
© September 18, 2014
BURLINGTON, Vt.
U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus used Lake Champlain, with its history of a key naval battle in both the American Revolution and the War of 1812, as a backdrop Thursday to announce the naming of the USS Vermont, a nuclear attack submarine due to be built over the next several years.
The $2.7 billion fast-attack submarine should be ready to join the fleet by the end of the decade, Mabus said after the naming ceremony held with state and local officials and some Vermont veterans of the submarine service.
It will be the third U.S. Navy vessel to carry the name Vermont.
"It covers almost the entire history of our Navy," Mabus said of the other two USS Vermonts. The last Vermont was a battleship built in the early years of the 20th century. It was decommissioned in 1920.
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The $2.7 billion number came from wikipedia. Virginia-class subs cost somewhere between $7 ~ $9 billion dollars.
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Navy to name fast-attack submarine Vermont (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Sep 2014
OP
Personally I would have thought Florida or Louisianna would be good names for submarines
intaglio
Sep 2014
#2
No imagination. Should start an online petition for "The USS Single-Payer State" ! nt
eppur_se_muova
Sep 2014
#3
Kaleva
(36,147 posts)1. The Navy has gone completely away from giving types of ships certain names.
Before, just by hearing the name, one could tell if the ship was a battleship, aircraft carrier, cruiser, destroyer, supply ship, submarine and so on. But not anymore.
intaglio
(8,170 posts)2. Personally I would have thought Florida or Louisianna would be good names for submarines
... given sea level rise.
eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)3. No imagination. Should start an online petition for "The USS Single-Payer State" ! nt