BATH, Maine – On April 1, General Dynamics Bath Iron Works christened the U.S. Navy’s newest guided-missile destroyer, Thomas Hudner (DDG 116). The ship is named for Capt. Thomas Hudner Jr., who intentionally crash landed his plane in an effort to save Ensign Jesse Brown, the nation’s first AfricanAmerican Navy pilot, during the Korean War’s Read More >
Category: 2017
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works Lays Keel of DDG 1002
BATH, Maine – On Monday, Jan. 30, General Dynamics Bath Iron Works celebrated the keel laying of the future USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG 1002). The U.S. Navy named the ship in honor of President Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president of the United States. President Johnson is credited with enacting major civil rights, education Read More >