LCS-10 commissioning

WASHINGTON -- In January 2012, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) decided to resign her seat after an assassination attempt that left her disabled. On that same day, she got a call from then-Navy Secretary Ray Mabus about plans to name a warship in her honor. It would be the first Navy warship to be named after a living woman since the Harriet Lane - named for President James Buchanan’s niece. It was commissioned in 1857. On June 10, the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS-10) Gabrielle Giffords will be commissioned in Galveston, Texas. The ship’s keel was laid and christened at the Austal USA Shipyard in Mobile, Ala. (Source: NY Times 06/05/17)