USS Monitor Replica Christened!
Northrop Grumman Corporation partnered with the
Mariners' Museum, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA)
and the U.S. Navy to christen the full-scale replica of the Civil
War ironclad USS Monitor on June 11, 2006.
More than 100 Northrop Grumman Newport News employees
were involved with the design and construction of the 173-foot-long
replica. Apprentices from the sector's Apprentice School built
it in 22 steel sections using
data provided by engineers from the CVN 21 aircraft carrier program.
The Navy donated the structural material for the project.
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