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Special features of USS NEW YORK:

• Name given by then Secretary of the Navy Gordon England
• Keel was laid on August 2004
• 1,200 Louisiana workers stayed to keep building the ship after Hurricane Katrina hit the shipyard in August 2005
• Ship was christened at Northrop Grumman’s Avondale shipyard on March 1, 2008
• Motto: “Strength forged through sacrifice. Never forget.”

Construction with World Trade Center steel was encouraged by Governor George Pataki of New York and Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City