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This weekend, the Navy will formally announce that the newest Virginia Class nuclear attack submarine will bear the name USS Massachusetts (SSN 798). A ship’s naming is the first milestone in ...

The Navy will name its newest Virginia Class nuclear attack submarine the USS Massachusetts, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus writes in The Boston Globe. “The USS Massachusetts will soon sail the ...