Navy Times by Courtney Mabeus 12/17/2019
A little more than a week after Caroline Kennedy smashed a bottle across its hull, the future aircraft carrier named for her father was launched Monday.
Six tugboats guided the future John F. Kennedy about a mile down Virginia’s James River from Newport News Shipbuilding’s Dry Dock 12 to the installation’s Pier 3. There, it will be outfitted with berthing and mess spaces and systems and its catapults and radar will be tested, the yard’s parent company — Huntington Ingalls Industries — said Tuesday.
The next phase of construction is expected to take 2 ½ years.
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