Special
Cover Commissioning Ceremony 10 December 1994
Sources:
R. Saxe
Cover
with board cachet dated 20 March 2001
Sources:
R. Saxe
The christening
ceremony for the USS Hartford (SSN 768), was held at the
Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation in
Groton, Connecticut, on Saturday, December 4, 1993
commencing at 11:30 a.m. Mrs. Laura O'Keefe, wife of former
Secretary of the Navy Sean O'Keefe, broke a bottle of
champagne over the bow and formally named the ship.
The Navy's 57th of 62 Los Angeles
class attack submarines, SSN 768 was commissioned on Dec. 10
at Naval Submarine Base, New London, Conn.
Hartford honors the capital city of
Connecticut. One previous U.S. Navy ship, a steam sloop
which was Rear Admiral David Farragut's flagship during the
Civil War battles of New Orleans, Vicksburg and Mobile Bay,
has been named Hartford.
