Ensign Jimmy Carter was assigned to serve on a by-then aging and broken-down USS Wyoming after graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy. The ...

The US Navy’s Virginia-class attack submarine, the future USS Arkansas (SSN 800), has been christened at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII)-Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) in Newport News ...

NEWPORT NEWS (AP) — The nuclear submarine USS Arkansas was christened Saturday, almost a decade in the making since the U.S. Navy announced that a Virginia-class submarine would bear the state ...

The U.S. Navy christened the Virginia-class submarine Arkansas at Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia on Saturday. (Chris Rose/HII) NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The nuclear submarine Arkansas was ...

Carlos Del Toro, secretary of the US Navy, attended the commissioning ceremony for the Arkansas, and said the boat would represent “the very best of our submarine force capabilities”. He drew ...

a crowd gathered at the gaping entrance to a 120-foot-high facility here to watch a pioneer of the civil-rights era christen the nuclear submarine USS Arkansas by smashing a bottle of wine near ...

Copper Fox Distillery was honored to be selected to create the USS Arkansas Commemorative Christening Bottle for the December 7th, 2024 ceremony. This very special single malt is the result of 5 ...

VIRGINIA (AP) — The nuclear submarine Arkansas was christened Saturday, almost a decade in the making since the U.S. Navy announced that a Virginia-class submarine would bear the state’s name.