President George W. Bush will deliver the principal address at the christening ceremony of the Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, The last of the Nimitz-class, named for his father, former President George H. W. Bush, at 10 a.m. EDT Oct. 7 at Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipyard, Newport News, Va.
The Nimitz-class :
CVN-68 USS Nimitz
CVN-69 USS Dwight Eisenhower
CVN-70 USS Carl Vinson
CVN-71 USS Theodoore Roosevelt
CVN-72 USS Abraham Lincoln
CVN-73 USS George Washington
CVN-74 USS John Stennis
CVN-75 USS Harry Truman
CVN-76 USS Ronald Reagan
CVN-77 USS George Bush (building)
By: sferrin - 7th October 2006 at 03:08
Live webcast of the christening in about 11 hours right here:
http://tvworldwide.com/events/Northrop_Grumman/061007/default.cfm?ID=6643&type=wmhigh&test=1
By: sferrin - 7th October 2006 at 01:10
So what will the next class be like? Any ideas?
do a google on CVN-78. (Not trying to be an a-hole there but there’s a lot of generic info available. Not much in specifics though).
By: jbritchford - 7th October 2006 at 00:19
So what will the next class be like? Any ideas?
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October 6, 2006 at 9:38 pm