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Newport News Sector President Mike
Petters (right) watches as his wife, Nancy,
chalks her initials on to the keel authentication plate
for the USS Monitor replica.
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Keel Laying Ceremony
On March 6, 2005, The Mariners' Museum and employees from Northrop
Grumman Newport News laid the 18-ton "keel unit" for the
full-scale replica of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor.
During the ceremonial keel laying, Northrop Grumman
Newport News President, Mike Petters' and his wife Nancy represented
all of the shipyard's employees. Mrs. Petters authenticated the
Monitor replica by chalking her initials onto a metal plate.
Her initials were then welded onto the plate and permanently affixed
to the Monitor replica.
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