Nuclear Submarine To Be Named For North Dakota
Cross-posted at Dakota Lifestyle: Beyond the Weather
After 85 years, North Dakota has the chance to have an active naval ship named after it again. A press release sent today stated that the Secretary of the Navy has agreed to name a nuclear submarine for the state. Senators Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan, Representative Earl Pomeroy and Governor John Hoeven all commented on the planned namesake.
From the press release:
“There hasn’t been a ship named after the State of North Dakota in 85 years,” Hoeven said. “That’s why together we put on a full court press to get the Navy to name a submarine after our state, and we were successful. I think the more than 1,000 pictures colored by our young people which we presented to Donald Winter, Secretary of the Navy, impressed him with the grassroots effort our state made to name a submarine USS North Dakota.”
