Tuesday, July 27, 2010

NG delivers destroyer Gravely

PASCAGOULA, Miss. - Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding's Pascagoula yard on Tuesday delivered its 27th Aegis guided missile destroyer, Gravely, to the Navy. DDG 107 is 510 feet long and weighs 9,500 tons. It will be commissioned Nov. 20, in Wilmington, N.C. (Source: Mississippi Press, Northrop Grumman, 07/27/10)