PCU New Hampshire became USS New Hampshire as her 137-member crew "brought her to life" on Saturday, October 25.
Portsmouth was selected by the Secretary of the Navy - after competing with two other sites - as the location for the commissioning of the USS New Hampshire, thanks to the letter-writing campaign launched by Dover schoolchildren to name this submarine - the 5th in the Navy's new Virginia Class submarine fleet - "New Hampshire" and thanks to the Navy's gold standard "New Hampshire" shipyard who built the first "New Hampshire" and continues a proud tradition begun, as Commander Mike Stevens noted at the Commissioning ceremony, with Captain John Paul Jones.
In a high-profile, tradition-laden event for the United States Navy, USS New Hampshire was commissioned at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, the US Navy's oldest shipyard (1800), the first Navy Yard to build a submarine (1917) and the Yard with a symbolic link to former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, later President Theodore Roosevelt whose birthday was originally chosen as Navy Day -October 27 and who earned his Nobel Peace Prize for facilitating the Portsmouth Peace Treaty signed at the shipyard in 1905.
Read the report: USS New Hampshire completes sea trials
New Hampshire (SSN 778), a Virginia-class nuclear attack submarine, the nation's newest and most advanced nuclear-powered attack submarines, has completed alpha and beta sea trials withthe same efficiency with which she was built. Click here for news coverage.
For a more detailed look at the design and construction advances incorporated in the Virginia Class, click here.
For a complete log and history of the construction of USS New Hampshire, complete with photos, please click here.
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