Navy Announces Submarine to be Named Massachusetts
11-09-2015 12:01 PM
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced Nov. 8 that SSN 798, a Virginia-class attack submarine, will bear the name USS Massachusetts during a taped video message at Gillette Stadium.*Mabus named the future Massachusetts to honor the history its namesake state has with the Navy. This history extends to 1775, before the official founding of the
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