Name Massachusetts Displacement 7,800 tons Length 115 m | Ordered April 28, 2014 Beam 34 ft (10.4 m) Builder Newport News Shipbuilding | |
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Namesake Commonwealth of Massachusetts Class and type Virginia-class submarine | ||
USS Massachusetts (SSN-798), a Virginia-class submarine, will be the seventh U.S. Navy ship named for the state of Massachusetts. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced the name on November 8, 2015 in an opinion piece for The Boston Globe. She is the first ship named after the Commonwealth of Massachusetts since the battleship USS Massachusetts (BB-59) was decommissioned in 1947.
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