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Ceremonial ship launching involves the performing of ceremonies associated with the process of transferring a vessel to the water. It is a nautical tradition in many cultures, dating back millennia, to accompany the physical process with ceremonies which have been observed as public celebration and a solemn blessing, usually but not always, in ...
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Ship commissioning is the act or ceremony of placing a ship in active service and may be regarded as a particular application of the general concepts and practices of project commissioning. The term is most commonly applied to placing a warship in active duty with its country's military forces. The ceremonies involved are often rooted in ...
A launching ceremony is held to unveil China's first Type 076 new-generation amphibious assault ship, the Sichuan, at a shipyard in Shanghai on December 27, 2024.
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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 .
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The "launch" involves nothing more than flooding the drydock when the ship's hull is completed with a separate christening ceremony held at some later date - the main exception are the Freedom-class ships built at Marinette Marine Shipyard in Wisconsin which use the side launch method (the last of these, the future USS Cleveland, was launched ...