Navy Lays Keel for ‘Hyman G. Rickover’ Pre-Commissioning Submarine
The U.S Navy laid the keel for a Virginia-class submarine named after Adm. Hyman G. Rickover, director of the Bureau of Ships’ Naval Reactors branch in the late 1940s. The ceremony took place Friday at a facility of General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat subsidiary in Quonset Point, R.I., and involved the installation of a steel plate that […] More