USS New York departing New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS, La. – The USS New York is scheduled to leave the New Orleans area Tuesday after more than three years of construction at Avondale. The 684-foot amphibious transport dock ship, which contains more than seven tons of steel from the World Trade Center, will head for its namesake city, where it will be commissioned Nov. 7. Then it will move to its homeport of Norfolk, Va. The ship was built by Northrop Grumman’s Avondale shipyard. (Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 10/13/09)