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Keel laying is one of the four specially celebrated events in a ship's life; the others are launching, commissioning, and decommissioning. Earlier, the event recognized as the keel laying was the initial placement of the central timber making up the backbone of a vessel, called the keel. As steel ships replaced wooden ones, the central timber ...
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A keel laying ceremony, which usually signifies the startìng of ship construction, was held at the Austal shipyards in Mobile on 11 January 2016, but because the ship was assembled from prefabricated modules, Tulsa was already 60 percent complete at the time. Kathy Taylor, former mayor of Tulsa, served as ship's sponsor. [3]
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Maes, Francis, tr. Arnold J. Pomerans and Erica Pomerans, A History of Russian Music: From Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2002). ISBN 0-520-21815-9. Moynahan, Brian, Leningrad: Siege and Symphony. (Eastbourne, UK: Quercus Publishing, 2013) ISBN 978-0-85738-300-6; Ottaway, Hugh (1978).
The coin ceremony is an event which takes place at the keel laying, in the early stages of a ship's construction.In it, the shipbuilders place one or two coins under the keel block of the new ship to bless the ship and as a symbol of good fortune.
On 13 April 2012, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced that SSN-787 would be named after the State of Washington, [12] which was celebrated during a naming ceremony in Seattle on 7 February 2013. [13] The Navy christened Washington on 5 March 2016, during a ceremony at Newport News Shipbuilding. [14] Her keel was laid down on 22 November 2014.